Interior of Littleton Colliery Medical Centre
Sick or injured men were treated here before gong to hospital or to their own doctor.
Cannock and Huntington Collieries Company started sinking both No. 1 Shaft and No. 2 Shaft in January 1877. By ...
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 ...
Jamage Colliery, Talke, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph was taken after the rescue of some pit ponies that had been trapped underground for 21 days. Two underground explosions occurred on the 25th November 1911 killing 6 men and 27 ponies. ...
Jamage Rescue Brigade, Jamage Colliery, Kidsgrove
On the 12 January 1918 there was an explosion at the Minnie Pit and 155 men and boys were killed. This photograph was taken before the Rescue Brigade descended into the pit. Pictured left to right on ...
John Liversage, Mineral and Coal Merchant, Gnosall
This postcard view shows one of John Liversage’s two offices in Gnosall. The office in this picture was located by the entrance to the former railway sidings which were near Gnosall Station. In later ...
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
Stafford Collieries and Iron Works pits in Fenton. On the left is Kemball pit. In the distance, Sutherland and Homer. In between are some of the iron works old furnace buildings. the photograph wqs taken ...
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. ...
Kent's Lane Colliery, Silverdale
Kent's Lane Colliery was in Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, it opened in 1830 to provide coal to the Silverdale ironworks and was managed by the Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Company. After nationalisation ...
Kent's Lane Colliery, Silverdale
Coal wagons from Shelton, Longton and Wolverhampton, can be seen loaded up in the foreground of this postcard, with the names of various companies they supplied on the side.
Silverdale colliery was ...
Kent's Lane Colliery, Silverdale
Kent's Lane Colliery was in Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, it opened in 1830 to provide coal to the Silverdale ironworks and was managed by the Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Company. After nationalisation ...
Laboratory at Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
This photograph shows the by-products produced from 5cwt of coal. Most of the coal from Birchenwood was used for coke and other by-products.
Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, most of the coal ...
Laboratory at 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 ...
Landscape and Quarry. Unknown Location. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape and Quarry. Unknown Location.
Lane Ends Farm and Victoria Colliery tip, Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking roughly north east from Lane Ends Farm at the end of Handley Street, near Packmoor. The spoil tip on the right belonged to Victoria (Black Bull) Colliery. The colliery operated between ...
Lane Ends. Mellor Street and Victoria Colliery. Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east towards the spoil tip of Victoria Colliery in Black Bull. Mellor Street runs through the middle of the photograph behind the cottage. The red brick building in the centre is St Patrick's ...
Lawn Colliery, Fenton
These ruins are all that remained of site of the old Lawn Colliery. The photograph was taken from Glover's Farm to the west. Lawn Colliery started in the 1860s, producing domestic coal, but like most ...