Littleton Colliery Pit Head Baths, Huntington
These pit head baths were built in 1941 and designed by W.A. Woodland. This photograph was taken shortly before they were demolished.
Littleton Colliery, Huntington
Gravel Lane and Littleton Colliery from Huntington Common.
Littleton Colliery, Huntington
Gravel Lane and Littleton Colliery from Huntington Common.
Loaded underground tram reaching the head of the drift at Apedale, Chesterton
Loading a narrowboat, Froghall Wharf
Loading a narrowboat with limestone at Froghall Wharf on the Caldon Canal..
The Caldon Canal opened in 1779 and links Froghall to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent. The canal also ...
Loading cart with outcropped coal at Longton
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926.
Loading coal in carts, Longton
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926.
Loading Gantry, Gypsum Works, Stowe-by-Chartley,
Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. The shaft was near Stowe. Gypsum was sent from Normanwood to London to make castings, particularly for dentists. ...
Loading limestone at Froghall Wharf
Labourers loading limestone onto narrowboats on the Caldon Canal at Froghall Wharf.
The Caldon Canal carried coal, ironstone and limestone. The limestone industry was well established in the Churnet ...
Locomotive at Scropton Sidings
Steam locomotive hauling wagons loaded with gypsum blocks from J.C. Staton's Gypsum Works at Fauld, Staffordshire. Pictured at Scropton Sidings, Derbyshire.
Locomotive at Wimblebury Junction
The steam locomotive "Cannock Wood" is pulling a load of flat trucks loaded with mine tubs. Coal would have been carried in this way from the mine to a washery at a different location. The driver stands ...
Locomotive on a bridge over the river Dove, Tutbury
Locomotive on the narrow gauge line from Fauld Gypsum Mines.
This bridge and narrow gauge railway allowed J C Staton & Co to bring gypsum from their mine at Fauld to be processed to make plaster at ...
Locomotive, by Rawnsley Road, Hednesford
"Wimblebury" locomotive, on Rawnsley Road, Hednesford. The locomotive is pulling a van and laden coaltrucks. A young girl is sitting on the roof of the cab, and in the distance the Post Office tower is ...
Locomotive, Cannock area
Locomotive "Griffin". The two men standing on footplate are the driver and the stoker, whose job it was to keep the coal fire burning which produced the steam to propel the engine.
Locomotives at J. C. Staton's Gypsum Mine, Fauld
Locomotives at J.C. Staton's Gypsum Mine, Fauld, near Tutbury.
Mining at Fauld began in the 19th century. By the 1890s there were two companies mining at Fauld: Peter Ford & Co. and J.C. Staton & ...
Longton from Park Hall hills
Photograph taken looking south-west. Sand and gravel are being quarried in the foreground.
Longton Hall Lane, Longton
A pit mound can be seen on the right.
Looking north east from near the top of Sturgess Street, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph was taken from close to the corner of Sturgess Street and Bath Terrace in Stoke. Until the 1950s Sturgess Street was called Edward Street. These houses in the top part of Sturgess Street ...