Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks, Fenton
Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks was off Duke Street in Fenton. Originally the brickworks and associated colliery was operated by Balfour & Coin from the 1880s. The colliery closed in the 1890s ...
One million tonnes of coal, Lea Hall Colliery
Two miners chalking "100000" "1967" onto a full coal wagon. The miners are Charlie Lindley (wearing the helmet), and Sid Milsom.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal ...
Opening the Kemball Pit, Stoke-on-Trent
Mr Tom Smith, M.P., formally opening the gate at the head of the Kemball Pit off Grove Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent as an underground training centre for young miners. Also in the group are Sir Francis ...
Orgreave Street, Cobridge
The camera is looking along Orgreave Street, from Waterloo Road, towards the Bleak Hill pottery works. Orgreave Street was formerly Bleak Street and at the bottom was the Bleak inn public house. The houses ...
Ormonde Street, Fenton
Ormonde Street (formerley Handley Street) off Duke Street in Fenton. In the background is the pit head gear of Fenton (Glebe) Colliery and to the left, its spoil tip. The building on the right hand side ...
Oulton Gravel Pit, near Stone
This pit, sited north of Kibblestone Road in Oulton, supplied gravel for road repair from the early 19th century. At the time of this photograph it was owned by William Blakeman, who also had a butcher's ...
Oulton, near Stone
A view taken from above Oulton gravel pit, looking southwards over the village rooftops towards Oulton Cross and Stone.
A postcard view by Stone photographer Phillip Dutton, of 63 High Street.
Outcrop pit, Cheadle
Pictured is one of a number of shallow outcrop pits (about 4 feet square) which were dug for coal getting during the General Strike of 1926.
Printed on an unused postcard and cropped to fit a frame, ...
Panorama from Bedford Street, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from just north of the flight of locks at Bedford Street in Shelton. The camera is looking northwards along the Caldon Canal with the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery on ...
Panoramic view of Stoke-On-Trent
A view looking towards Stoke-on-Trent taken from Primrose Hill in Hanford.
You can see the Britannia Stadium construction beginning just left of centre, and Hem Heath Colliery is still visible to the ...
Park Hall Colliery, Longton (1860-1962)
Situated on the outskirts of Longton, the underground workings were merged with Florence Colliery in 1962.
The site later became the Cinderhill industrial estate.
Park House Colliery, Chesterton
This watercolour by W. Richardson depicts Park House Colliery in Chesterton. One large pit head wheel can be seen in the foreground with another to the right in the middle distance. A tall chimney to ...
Park House Colliery, Chesterton
Watercolour sketch by W. Richardson for his final painting of Park House Colliery, the large pit head wheels, tall chimney and outbuildings in this picture all appear in the final painting. Park House ...
Parkhall Colliery
The surface buildings and spoil tips of Parkhall Colliery. The trackway to the top of the tip is very clear. Opened in 1862, the colliery worked three main seams: Bowling Alley, Holly Lane and Hard ...
Parkhall Colliery
Part of Parkhall Colliery alongside the mineral line, the Adderley Green and Bucknall branch line. In the photograph is the winding gear for the shaft and the "screens", where coal was sorted from stone. ...
Parkhall Colliery and tip from Park Hall Hills
Looking towards Longton from Parkhall Hills. The middle of the photograph is dominated by the spoil tips of Parkhall Colliery, closed nearly four years before the picture was taken. Park Hall Road, connecting ...
Parkhouse colliery, Chesterton
(1874-1968). Situated just off the A34 near Chesterton. It dates from 1874 when the original tandem pits were worked by J.H.Pearson of Handsworth, Birmingham who moved out in 1906. The colliery was taken ...
Payclerks' windows at Lea Hall Colliery
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 of 1300ft (396m). The first coal was produced in 1960, and the colliery's ...