Looking south over Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking south from Chatterley Road over Westport towards Wolstanton. The spire of St Margaret's Church in Wolstanton is to the right with the twin towers of Wolstanton Colliery in the centre. ...
Looking towards Florence Colliery from Normacot
This photograph was taken from Read's sandpit and quarry on Star and Garter Road in Normacot looking westwards. At over 600 feet (190 metres) above sea level, this is one of the higher points in the city. ...
Maintenance at Cannock Chase Colliery Company No.8 at Heath Hayes.
The miner shown working here is back ripping a roadway, this was necessary when the weight from above or the sides crushed a roadway, in order to keep it open it would have to be enlarged by ripping the ...
Marl Hole and Coal Mine, Berry Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
View of open cast mine, pit had and slag heap, at Berry Hill, between Fenton, Hanley and Stoke on Trent.
This early colour photograph is a Dufaycolour transparency, believed to have been taken by William ...
Marl Hole and Coal Tip, Berry Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
Industrial landscape with a view of a coal tip and marl hole. Photograph taken by Longton photographer, William Blake.
Meeting of mining officials at Littleton Colliery
These five men standing in an office at the colliery are all mining officials. They are from left to right: Arthur Felton (N.U.M. Secretary), Albert Simpson (NACODS Chairman), ? Hughes (N.U.M. Official), ...
Milton, Norton and beyond from Forresters Bank (Baddeley Edge).
A view west from one of the quarries on top of Forrester's Bank near Baddeley Edge. Norton Colliery spoil tip is to the right with Leek New Road (A53) passing to its left. Buller's (Allied Insulators ...
Mine Railway at pit bottom, Lea Hall Colliery
View of the walls at the pit bottom, either made of stone or concrete blocks. Towards the back of the picture are several mine car controllers.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by ...
Miner loading the explosives car, Lea Hall Colliery
The flat-topped wagon stands on rails outside the underground station, being filled with boxes of explosives by a miner dressed in donkey jacket and safety helmet.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned ...
Miner using UTR ripping machine
Miners at the coal face, Cannock Chase Colliery No. 9
These three miners were brothers from the Heath Hayes area.
Miners celebrating at Littleton Colliery
Group of miners celebrating mining one million tonnes of coal between 1986-87. Two miners in the centre are holding wine glasses, while their manager Mr Eddie Blakeley pours them a drink.
Front row ...
Miners' celebration at Lea Hall Colliery
An underground photograph showing coal tub with "The 1 1/2 millionth ton 20th Dec 1965. Some of the men and women pictured are wearing working clothes, and there are Christmas hampers on the ground between ...
Miners examining a safety helmet, at the Fairlady (Coppice Colliery) Heath Hayes
Group of miners on afternoons in working clothes carrying 'keg' or 'bucket' battery powered electric lamps. The two men in the centre are looking at a helmet, as it is thought that all of the miners pictured ...
Miners in roadway, Lea Hall Colliery
View of two miners possibly leading to a coalface spraying limestone dust, to limit the potential effects of an explosion. One man in a tub among the sacks is feeding limestone into a hopper, while a ...
Miners leaving the pit after the end of a day shift
All of the miners are wearing safety helmets and carrying lamps, except one man in the foreground who wears a cap.
Miners pictured at Conduit Colliery, Norton Canes
Conduit Colliery Company had several collieries in the Norton Canes/Brownhills area. The main two were No. 3 and No. 4 collieries. No. 3
had three shafts. Sinking began there in 1858, but it was some ...
Miners underground at "snap-time", Hawkins Colliery, Cannock
This is a posed photograph, as ordinarily miners wouldn't have sat on the rails. Their snap is wrapped in paper. Other details to note about the photograph are that the man on the left with the stick ...