Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
A huge electrical generator at Sneyd Colliery in 1920. These generators were powered by steam turbine and were immensely powerful. They would provide almost all of the electrical power used by the colliery....
Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
Sneyd colliery was located between Burslem and Smallthorne, and not at Sneyd Green some one and a half miles away. The coal wagons on the right would be filled and taken down to Burslem to join the loop ...
Sneyd Cricket Club ground and spoil tip, Burslem
Sneyd Cricket Club ground was just off Sandbach Road, in the shadow of the spoil tip belonging to Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. Running through the middle of the photograph are the cables of the aerial ...
Spark Street, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking eastwards along Spark Street (Park Street until the 1950s renaming) down towards London Road. At the bottom is the frontage of the Minton pottery works with one of the bottle ovens ...
Spoil tips and tramways near Fenton Road, Bucknall
This photograph was taken east of Fenton Road looking towards Bucknall. The disturbed land in the foreground is a mixture of spoil tips and embankments for colliery tramways.
Springs Bridge, Cheddleton
Early 19th century Grade 2 listed Springs Bridge, number 41, over the Caldon Canal near Cheddleton Flint Mill.
The horse-drawn narrow-boat is probably loaded with flint which was transported on the canal ...
St Margaret's Mission Church, Victoria Road, Fenton Low
The mission church of St Margaret and St Anthony in St Anthony's Row off Victoria Road in Fenton. Behind is the spoil tip of Berry Hill Collieries.
A small church was opened around 1896 as a mission ...
Staff at West Cannock No.5 pit
Men and boys employed by the mining company assembled in front of a winding wheel.
West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites:
No.1 plant (pit) was sunk in 1869 and closed in 1958 it had a downcast ...
Stafford Coal & Iron Company Colliery, Old Sideway Road, Stoke-on-Trent
A view south east from Old Sideway Road area in Boothen towards the Stafford Coal and Iron Company's colliery. The two winding gear towers can be seen in the centre of the photograph, with the waste tips ...
Staffordshire Series Ordnance Survey Map, Knutton and Cross Heath, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is one of seven hand coloured Staffordshire Series Ordnance Survey maps that show the areas surrounding Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre.
The other maps in this group are signed in the bottom right ...
Staffordshire Weights & Measures Department testing a weighbridge
Staffordshire County Council Weights and Measures Department checking a 40 tonne weighbridge. Probably on coal board property in north Staffordshire.
A weighbridge is a big scale set into the ground ...
Star and Garter Road, Normacot
The sand and gravel quarries can be seen to the left.
Staton’s Mills, Tutbury
Prior to 1890, J.C. Staton and Company were mining gypsum at Fauld and making plaster at Shobnall, Burton-upon-Trent. Tutbury Mill was converted from a disused cotton mill to a plaster mill in 1890. This ...
Staton's Bank, Gypsum Mine, Fauld
Stone sorting at J.C. Staton's Gypsum Mine, Fauld, near Tutbury. The locomotive was made by Bagnall's of Stafford in 1890-1. The mine entrance is behind the shed.
Mining at Fauld began in the 19th ...
Steam locomotive 'Toad', Cauldon
'Toad', one of the 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives which operated with the 3ft 6in cable-operated narrow gauge line connecting Froghall Wharf to the limestone quarry at Cauldon Low, which opened in 1849. ...
Still Plant Benzol House, Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, most of the coal being used for coke and other by-products. The colliery actually closed in 1932, but coke and other by-product production continued by using ...
Stone dust spraying wagon, Lea Hall Colliery
Locomotive carrying stone dust spraying wagon. The wagon in front is carrying bags of dust, and the wagon behind contains a generator and hose pipe.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk ...
Stone Views
This multi-view postcard of Stone shows scenes of Station Road, Sand Hole and the Plot Entrance on Old Road in Stone.
The middle image shows the Lion's Den caves which were located in the north of ...