Stonnall Church: pen and wash drawing
'North West View of Stonnall Church.' It stands on a hill above a quarry where men are working. It is a small building of the Gothic revival [1822], with three bays and a small tower.'T. P. W.,' [Thomas ...
Subsidence at Dudley Wood, West Midlands
A house badly affected by subsidence caused by coal mining at Dudley Wood, one of a series of photographs taken to show damage to buildings.
Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland.
Sulphate of ammonia storehouse, Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
A by-product of coke ovens, sulphate of ammonia is used as a fertiliser. Frequent and prolonged exposure to the it can cause gastrointestinal problems and skin and eye irritation. There is no evidence ...
Taking readings at Birchenwood Collliery, 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 ...
Talke o' th' Hill Colliery, Newcastle-Under-Lyme
An underground view of Talke o' th' Hill Colliery.
Talke o 'th' Holl Colliery, Laboratory
Talke o 'th' Holl Colliery Laboratory was a chemical by-product plant.
Tamworth Colliery and Brickworks
General view of the early workings of Tamworth Colliery, with the Brickworks in the foreground, Coventry canal in the centre, and Tamworth colliery in the background. The figure to the right in the photograph, ...
Tanner's fireclay pit, Cobridge
Tanner's fireclay pit was at the end of Purbeck Street (previously George Street), just off Leek New Road in Cobridge. This photograph shows the southern face of the pit, with the houses along Sneyd Street ...
Technical and Mining College, Anglesey Street, Hednesford
The college is a brick-built double-fronted building. It served as a college until the mid 1970s. It was converted into luxury flats in the late 1990s.
All mining trainees in the Cannock Chase area completed ...
'The Big A', Hem Heath Colliery
New Hem Heath ‘the big A’ (1950-1990). This colliery was known as ‘The Big A’ because of its distinctive headgear as seen in the photograph. Work began in 1950 on sinking a new shaft, 24 feet in diameter ...
The Black Bull Inn, Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent
The Black Bull public house was on the corner of Bridge Street and Tunstall Road in Brindley Ford. It is nom longer vopen and has been converted into a dwelling. The slag tips on the right are from Robert ...
The bottom of Basford Bank, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking northwards from Etruria Road close to the bottom of Basford Bank towards Wolstanton Colliery. On the skyline are the houses in May Bank, built from the 1920s onwards.
The foreground is a jumble ...
The Chatterley Whitfield mineral line bridge in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north along Chell Heath Road towards Oxford Road in Fegg Hayes. The bridge is carrying the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (off to the right) into Tunstall and ...
The Coal Miners' Address to the Public - A notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
So-called 'blackleg' labour has been a controversial feature of industrial tension for generations.
Traitors
When North Staffordshire's miners formed a trade union in the early 1830s, their masters ...
The Crooked House, Himley
The card has the following detailed information on the reverse:
"The “Glynne Arms,” Kingswinford is situated in the parish of Himley, Staffordshire about three miles from Dudley.
It is named after ...
The Drawing Office, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
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 ...
The Fowlea Brook Valley from Hollywall Lane, Goldenhill
A panoramic view west from Holywall lane in Goldenhill over the Fowlea Brook Valley towards Bradwell Woods. On the left hand edge is Westport Lake and the lines of coal trucks mark the route of the main ...
The George Hotel, Burslem
The George Hotel on the corner of Swan Square and Nile Street in Burslem. The present building dates from 1929. There has been an inn or pub on the site, named variously the George or George and Dragon, ...