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Grouting a colliery shaft, Stoke-on-Trent

Grouting of an old colliery shaft. We haven’t been able to identify the exact location but the slag heap in the distance may belong to Sneyd Colliery or Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. Photographer: ...

Hand drawn map of Gravel Lane, Huntington

Hand drawn map by Tony Briggs senior who worked at Littleton pit for many years as an electrician. His map shows the location of residents housing around the Gravel Lane Littleton pit area as he remembered ...

Hanley deep pit

Hanley deep pit (Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Co.Ltd.) (1854-1962). The original Deep Pits were sunk in 1854 to a depth of 500 yards. In the early years of the century the shafts were widened and deepened ...

Hanley Deep Pit Colliery

The winding gear of No.1 shaft of Deep Pit Colliery in Hanley. This photograph was taken from Town Road with one of the conical spoil tips just visible behind the winding gear. Hanley Deep pit was ...

Harvesting wheat, near Cradley Heath

Harvesting in the Black Country. A reaper binder pulled by three horses harvesting a field of wheat with Homer Hill colliery in the background. The photographer was living in Cradley Heath when he took ...

Hem Heath Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent

This photograph shows the main entrance to Hem Heath Colliery off Trentham Road. The first shaft at Hem Heath was started in 1924 for the Stafford Coal and Iron Company with the second started after ...

Hem Heath Colliery, Trentham.

Hem Heath colliery was one of the biggest in the area and was located in the south of the North Staffordshire coalfield at Trentham. The 'Big A' headstock stood defiantly as an icon to the mining industry ...

Hill Top, Ecton Mine

Mine buildings, ruins and spoil on Hill Top, Ecton copper mines, near Wetton in the Manifold Valley. Mining was taking place at Ecton in the 17th century and was reputedly the first British mine to ...

Holditch colliery, Chesterton

(1912-1989). Known locally as ‘Brymbo’, there were two shafts approximately 2000 feet deep. An explosion occurred in July 1937, killing 30 men and injuring 8. Modernisation took place after 1947 using ...

Holditch sinkings, Chesterton

A view of the Holditch sinkings at Chesterton, showing the winding wheel for the mine. The sinking at Holditch was to enable deeper coal seams to be reached.

Howson's bottle ovens, Eastwood Works, Hanley

George Howson & Sons were manufacturers of sanitary ware at the Eastwood Works in Hanley. The company started in the 1860s and was finally sold to Armitage Shanks in 1966. The photograph shows the bottle ...

Huntley Earthworks. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape including a view of the Earth Works at Huntley, Staffordshire. Taken on April 27th 1933.

Huntley Earthworks. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape including a view of the earthworks at Huntley, Staffordshire. Taken on April 27th 1933.

Interior of lamp room, Lea Hall Colliery

Behind the lamps rows of switch gear can be seen in the background. Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts were started in 1954 and sunk to a depth ...

Interior of the Upcast pit-top, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley

The upcast shaft is used for return ventilation as well as for lifting two sets of cages. On the right is the mine-car tipper. This was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. ...

J Hewitt Sons works, Fenton.

Joseph Hewitt & Co. operated the Fenton Low Brick and Marl work was alongside the Biddulph Valley and Leek branch of the old North Staffordshire Railway. The line opened in 1859 and was finally closed ...

Kemball Colliery, Heron Cross (1876-1963)

This colliery was used as a training pit for new recruits in the 1940s. It proved very useful during World War 2 to train ‘Bevin Boys’. There were three shafts on this site Kemball main drawing shaft, ...

Kemball Pit, Fenton

This is the view looking south towards Hem Heath from just off Grove Road in Fenton. Kemball, Pender and Bourne were pits operated by The Stafford Collieries and Iron Works between Sideway and Mount Pleasant. ...