Silverdale County Primary School Colliery visit
Pupils from Silverdale County Primary School on a visit to Silverdale Colliery 1980.
Silverdale Colliery opened in 1830, to provide coal for the Silverdale Ironworks. A mechanisation programme began ...
Silverdale County Primary School Colliery visit
Pupils from Silverdale County Primary School on a visit to Silverdale Colliery in 1980. Included are Paul Middleton, Martin Evans and Alan Myatt.
Silverdale Colliery opened in 1830, to provide coal ...
Silverdale No 2 Mines Rescue Brigade, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The North Staffs Colliery Owners Association set up their first mines rescue station, in a converted house at Stoke in 1911.
This was not long after the Coal Mines Act was passed; meaning that it was ...
Silverdale No 3 Rescue Brigade, Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Miners Rescue Team are pictured here in all of their equipment. The National Miners' Rescue Service was formed in the early part of the twentieth century. Training in the area took place either at ...
Silverdale Vase
This vase was presented to Mr Francis Tyndall by Francis Stanier Broade, Silverdale 31st Jan 1859.
The crest pictures a boar with an arrow through its eye, a bird with long ears and a flag with the ...
Sinking of the staple shaft, Littleton Colliery
View of miners with a sinking shaft underground. The round cage suspended by the cable is descending into the hole. The miner in front of the hole to the left is using a pneumatic drill. Both miners are ...
Site of the Blake High School (1), Marston Road, Hednesford, Cannock
The pit mound of West Cannock No.1 pit at Hednesford
Slag quarry near Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent
A slag quarry near Brindley Ford photographed from Bemersley Road. The slag came from the old Robert Heath and Lowmoor furnaces.
Slater's Fireclay Pit, Berry Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
The fireclay pit or marl hole was part of Berry Hill brickworks (also known as Slater's fireclay pit) and linked to the nearby Berry Hill collieries. John Slater purchased the colliery in 1914 and the ...
Smallthorne Miners' Hostel, Chell Heath Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north east from the corner of Duddell Road and Chell Heath Road with Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip in the distance. A signal on the Biddulph Valley branch line is visible on the right. The buildings ...
Sneyd Brickworks Company's fireclay pit, Burslem
The fireclay pit was north of Bycars Lane. This photograph was taken at the north of the pit, just south of Haywood Road. The Etruria Marl from this pit was used to make firebricks, although Sneyd Brickworks ...
Sneyd Colliery and spoil tip from Sneyd Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north from Sneyd Street towards the Sneyd Colliery spoil tip that ran alongside Leek New Road. Some of the winding gear is visible behind and to the left of the tip. Immediately in front of the ...
Sneyd Colliery from Nile Street, Burslem
The camera is looking east from the top of Adelaide Street at the junction with Nile Street towards Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. The colliery eventually had four shafts mining house and steam coal and ...
Sneyd Colliery Land Sale Yard
An early view of Sneyd land sale yard, probably taken during the 1920s. Note the horses and carts.
It is thought that the white building at the top left is the colliery office block.
The view ...
Sneyd Colliery ropeway from Adkins Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north east from the end of Adkins Street towards the pulley wheel and pylon on the end of the aerial ropeway or cableway which connected Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks with its spoil tip. The colliery ...
Sneyd Colliery tip from Jug Bank, Cobridge
This is the view north east from near The Jug Inn on Sneyd Street in Cobridge. Sneyd Colliery spoil tip is on the right with the winding gear, chimneys and aerial cableway to the left. Just in front of ...
Sneyd Colliery, burslem
The photograph was taken from the entrance to the colliery from Sneyd Terrace which was just off Moorland Road in the area that is now Lingard Street. The camera is looking south east towards the head ...
Sneyd Colliery, Burslem
Sneyd colliery was modernised extensively between 1957 and 1964 and was linked underground to Hanley Deep pit and Wolstanton colliery. The mine closed in the 1970s, so had long since ceased to be operational ...