Railway Sidings near Rugeley
This photograph is believed to show railway sidings and coal trains at Lea Hall Colliery, near Rugeley.
Railway sidings, Silverdale Colliery
Coal wagons being filled up at Silverdale Colliery, photograph taken by a member of the Silverdale Community Play Association. Silverdale, which ceased production in December 1998, was the last coal mine ...
Reclaimed marl pit in Clanway Road, Tunstall
The photograph shows the abandoned and infilled marl hole that lay to the east of Tunstall High Street. The photograph is looking west from Clanway Street. In the centre is Christ Church and to the right ...
Red Quarry, Hollington
The Red Quarry at Hollington, Staffordshire. Note the gantries of manually powered cranes.
John Stevenson (1844-1916) was responsible for re-opening Hollington Quarry after a long period of redundancy. ...
Removing a pit mound, Longton
Possibly Longton Hall Lane.
Removing a pit mound, Longton
Possibly Longton Hall Lane.
Removing a pit mound, Longton
Possibly Longton Hall Lane.
Re-opening of New Haden Colliery, Cheadle
The re-opening of New Haden Colliery, Cheadle. The pit was owned by the Bassano brothers. Pit manager Mr. Haines is in the foreground.
Rookery Colliery, Bignall Hill
Rookery Colliery was Sunk in 1828 by John Wedgwood. The colliery worked a ten foot coal seam, but was abandoned around 1854 when the nearby Diglake Colliery closed. When the Diglake pumps ceased, the ...
Royal Visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
King George V and Queen Mary visited Birchenwood Colliery on the second day of their tour of north Staffordshire. They had stayed overnight at Crewe Hall.
Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, ...
Royal visit to Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
Children from Dove Bank School, Kidsgrove are pictured here lining the route awaiting the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Birchenwood Colliery.
Royal visit to Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
Rugeley B Power Station
Oil on canvas. A view of Rugeley B Power Station with cottages in left foreground and Lea Hall Colliery far right. Signed, bottom right: 'George Busby 84'. In gilt wood frame, unglazed.
Artist: ...
Rules, Orders, Articles and Regulations Made and to be Observed by the Associated Coal Miners' Union Society in the County of Stafford - document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
During the 1830s, tensions ran high in the mining industry as colliery owners accused miners of "adminstering illegal oaths" and forming an early trade union.
For this very offence, four Dorset labourers ...
Sacred Heart Church from the Scotia Lane area, Tunstall
The camera is looking north east from the area of the Scotia Colliery spoil tip towards the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church on Queen's Avenue in Tunstall. The photographer, Bert Bentley, noted that ...
Saddle tank locomotive 'Blackcock', Cannock Chase
One of the locomaotives which operated on the 'Tackeroo' on Cannock Chase during World War 1. The rolling stock for these locomotives tended to be loaned from local colliery companies. Pictured is "Blackcock" ...
Samuel Barlow Coal Co. trucks, Glascote, Tamworth
Five Ford Thames six-wheeler trucks belonging to Samuel Barlow Coal Co. Ltd. pictured at an unidentified colliery. the drivers are (from left to right): Jack Healy, Albert Taylor, Johnny Holmes, unknown, ...
Sand train at Oakamoor
A Yorkshire diesel shunting engine pulling a 'Sand Train' at Oakamoor sidings. Sand was carried from Moneystone sand quarry via the Churnet Valley line to St Helens, Merseyside for Pilkington glass.
The ...