Cauldon Low tramway, near Froghall
Dating from the 1770s, the Cotton Plane plateway was built to take limestone from Caldon Low quarries to Froghall. It was a railway for horse drawn carts.
Chatterley Whitfield and Fegg Hayes from Burslem Golf Course
The view north east from Burslem Golf Course towards Chell Heath, Fegg Hayes and Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip. To the right in front of the spoil tip is Burnwood School.
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery spoil tip, Stoke-on-Trent
A view of the Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip from the Biddulph Valley branch line to Congleton. The photograph is looking north from close to Chell Heath Road. The railway line is now a walkway into Whitfield ...
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph, looking north east, shows the mineral railway line serving Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. The bridge in the centre carries the line over Chell Heath Road and the houses on the extreme ...
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
Lantern slide containing a view of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip from Bank Haye Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north along the Bank Haye Brook valley towards the waste tip of Chatterley Whitfield colliery. Mow Cop appears faintly on the horizon to the left of the photograph beyond the electricity pylons. ...
Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery waste tip from the Biddulph Valley branch line. The camera is looking north, with the houses on Catharine Road to the left of the photograph. This section ...
Chatterley Whitfield Valley, Stoke-on-Trent
Meadow land in the Fegg Hayes area of the city. Cutting through the centre of the picture from left to right is the Biddulph Valley branch line. The spoil tip in the background belongs to Norton Colliery, ...
Cheadlepark Colliery, Cheadle
Established in about 1890, Cheadlepark Colliery Co. Ltd. was a small mine situated a mile north of Cheadle. The colliery closed in about 1914. The site is now occupied by the JCB Earthmovers Ltd. factory....
Chell from Fir Tree Farm, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view east from Fir Tree Farm over the Ford Green Brook valley towards Chell Heath. Fir Tree Farm is just off Whitfield Road in Ball Green. Running towards the top of the photograph is Cornhill ...
Cherry Eye Wharf, Caldon Canal
A working narrowboat moored at the loading wharf for the Cherry Eye ironstone mine on the Caldon Canal, near Consall. The deep red ironstone was used mainly for paint making.
Children's day out, Kidsgrove.
During the 1984 - 1985 miner's strike there were ten womens action groups in north Staffordshire who supported the striking miners. They ran food centres, organised collections, manned picket lines and ...
Christmas Miners Charity to St. Editha's Hospital, Tamworth
Traditionally the Miners at Kingsbury Colliery gave food for the Christmas Dinner at St. Editha's Hospital. Here their gift for one year can be seen.
Church Bank Pottery, Bank Street, Tunstall
The imposing chimney of Church the Bank pottery. The original Church Bank works was built by Robert Beswick in 1842 and passed through several hands before becoming Thomas Booth took over in 1868, manufacturing ...
Cinderhill Hall, Longton
Cinderhill Hall or House was a colliery manager's house. In 1923 to 1933 this was the home of Thomas Yates, manager and later Director of Mossfield Colliery. It has since been demolished and the area ...
Clay pit, Stoke-on-Trent
An unidentified fireclay pit, somewhere in the Potteries. Please contact us if you can identify the location.
Photograph by the Rev. C.F.L. Barnwell (1853-1933) who was Vicar of Stramshall from 1879 ...
Cliff Quarry, Great Haywood,
Stone was excavated at many sites between Great Haywood and Colton.
Cliff Quarry dates from at least the mid-eighteenth century. Sandstone from this quarry was said to have been used in the building ...
Clough Hall Colliery Anti-Union Notice - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Colliery owners did not take kindly to miners' early attempts to form trades unions.
Market forces
Most believed in an 'iron law of wages,' which dictated that wages would be related to market forces.
This ...