Looking over Stoke-on-Trent from Richmond Street, Penkhull
This was the view east from near the allotments at the bottom of Richmond Street in Penkhull. On the right hand edge is the tower of St Peter's Church in Stoke (Stoke Minster) and the domed building in ...
Looking south east from Hartshill Park, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph was taken from the end of Vicarage Road on the edge of Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The camera is looking south eastwards along the Fowlea Valley towards the sites of Stoke Station ...
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. ...
Looking towards the west from Little Chell Lane, Little Chell
The camera is pointing northwest from the top of Little Chell Lane. The buildings on the right are William Southerne Catholic Secondary School (now St Margaret Ward Academy) and the houses in the foreground ...
Looking west from Hollywall Lane, Goldenhill
The view west from Hollywall Lane over the entrance to the old Harecastle railway tunnel. The houses in the foreground are on Boathorse Road (or Lane) and beyond the house and barns of Yeld Hill Farm. ...
Loomer Bridge, footpath from Mount Pleasant, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph captures three boys against the background of the pyramid-like slag heap from one of the local coal mines.
Loop line bridge over Hot Lane, Burslem
The bridge carried the Potteries Loop Line over Hot Lane. Burslem station was the next stop to the left and Cobridge station was down the line to the right. Visible in the background is the top of Sneyd ...
Ludwall Road, Normacot
Photograph taken looking east. The gravel quarry on Star and Garter Road can be seen in the background.
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 ...
Making food parcels for miners' families, Florence Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent 1984
The miner's strike of 1984/1985 saw many miner's families experience hardship as no money was coming in either through wages or benefits. Womens action groups set up food centres which packaged donated ...
Making food parcels, Florence Colliery in Longton 1984.
During the miner'ss trike of 1984 - 1985 striking workers received no pay or benefits and many families fell on hard times. People donated food to local collection points like this one at Florence colliery ...
Malthouse Road, Bucknall
This photograph was taken from the corner of Ruxley Road looking southwards along Malthouse Road. On the corner is Malthouse County Infants' School and Library, opened in 1877 but now demolished. In ...
Man-rider train, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
"Man-rider" train conveying men from the pit bottom into mine workings at the start of the shift. The driver is Sid Bailey.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. ...
Map of colliery workings near Harecastle Tunnel, Kidsgrove
This is a map of colliery workings near Harecastle Tunnel in Kidsgrove.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund
Map of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Silverdale
This map shows Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1925. It also marks the Poor Law Institutions or workhouses on London Road and Keele Road.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund
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 pit at John Caddick's Spoutfield Brick and Tile Works, Stoke-on-Trent
This marl pit supplied clay for John Caddick's Spoutfield Brick and Tile Works on Brick Kiln Lane. Red brick clay in this area is called Etruria Marl and was extracted by opencast mining and the big holes ...
Marl pit, Trent Vale Brick & Tile Company, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows a section of the marl pit belonging to the Trent Vale Brick & Tile Co. This is a view from the Rookery Lane area. The pit yielded Etruria Marl, a brick clay, usually extracted by ...