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Brocton Quarry

Brocton Quarry was worked by Brocton Gravel Company Ltd. between 1930 and 1960. The large white building in the centre was the engine house, with the dark diesel storage tank raised up to the right ...

Brocton Quarry workers

Brocton Quarry was worked by Brocton Gravel Company Ltd. between 1930 and 1960.

Brookhouse Farm, Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent

Brookhouse Farm at the junction of Peck Mill Lane and Outclough Road (formerly High Street). The camera is looking south towards Chatterley Whitfield Colliery's spoil tip and chimney.

Brownhills Road, Tunstall

The photograph was taken from Canal Lane looking south east towards the old Brownhills High School for Girls. Brownhills Road runs across the bottom of the photograph. The original school was based around ...

Building Department, Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove

Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, most of the coal being used for coke and other by-products. The colliery actually closed in 1932, but coke and other by-product production continued by using ...

Building the foundations of a Luhrig washer, Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove

Coal needs washing before use to remove impurities. The Luhrig Washer was invented in 1887. Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, most of the coal being used for coke and other by-products. The ...

Burley pit engine at Apedale colliery, Chesterton

Burley Pit, Apedale

Apedale colliery, the Burley pit (c. 1850-1926) in early 1900’s. This photograph shows the bridge carrying the tub-way from the Watermills colliery to the Burley screens. There is a tub (the local name ...

Burley Pit, Chesterton

Burley Pit was part of Apedale colliery and was open between about 1850 and 1926. This photograph was taken by Thomas Warham, a local photographer, who took many photographs of Audley and its surrounding ...

Burnwood School, Burslem

The view east from Burslem Golf Course towards Ball Green. In the foreground is Burnwood School. In the distance are the buildings of Ball Green Primary School. On the left is the spoil tip of Chatterley ...

Cannock Chase views

Five views on and around Cannock Chase and Hednesford: No. 3 Pit, west Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; The Camp, Cannock Chase; West Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; Hednesford, from Church Hill; near the ...

Cannock Wood colliery, near Hednesford

An aerial view of Cannock Wood Colliery, situated between Hazel Slade and Castle Ring. It was sunk in 1864-1866 by the Beaudesert Colliery Company which later changed its name to the Cannock & Rugeley ...

Cauldon Low Quarry

This post card view shows a railway junction with three men standing close to a truck and two bowsers.

Cauldon Low Quarry

A view looking north west over the limestone quarry at Cauldon Low with Moorend Farm and the line of houses on Stoney Lane visible in the distance.

Cauldon Low Quarry

The limestone quarry at Cauldon Low pictured just prior to the detonation of 48 hundredweight of gunpowder. Photograph by the Rev. C.F.L. Barnwell (1853-1933) who was Vicar of Stramshall from 1879 ...

Cauldon Low Quarry. Photographed by William Blake.

A view of the limestone quarry and workers at Cauldon Low.

Cauldon Low Quarry. Photographed by William Blake.

A view of the limestone quarry and workers at Cauldon Low.

Cauldon Low Quarry. Photographed by William Blake.

A view of the limestone quarry and workers at Cauldon Low.