The Grange, Burslem
The camera is looking south towards Shelton iron and steel works and the headgear of Wolstanton Colliery. The photograph was taken from the bridge near the northern end of the Grange mineral railway line.
The ...
The Hermit's Cave, Bromstead, Moreton
The Hermit's Cave was the nickname of a rock-cut room in a quarry at Bromstead Hill Farm. The entrance has since been filled in. The quarry was the source of stone used to build Moreton Church, the Vicarage ...
The High Shut, Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Highshutt Quarry, Hawksmoor, Nr. Cheadle, Staffordshire.
The area is now recognised as a Regionally Important Geological/Geomorphological Site (RIGS).
The last Sand Train, Oakamoor
A Yorkshire diesel shunting engine pulling a BIS (British Industrial Sand) 'Sand Train' pictured on its last day of operation on the Churnet Valley line in August 1988. Sand was carried from Hepworth's ...
The Miner's Manual - Handbill from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This single-sheet Miner's Manual was published in response to attempts by coal masters to crush the activities of organised labour. The notice probably dates from the early 1830s.
"This Act shall not ...
The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph captioned “where the victim was last seen alive” showing the offices of the Valley Colliery, since demolished, at the corner of Rugeley Road and Valley Road, Hednesford. The woodland ...
The Potteries
A general view of then Potteries, an image taken from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during ...
The Railway Line behind St. Luke's Church, Silverdale
This photograph shows a train on the railway line in Silverdale, the former mining village that lies just outside Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Silverdale line was originally opened to serve Silverdale colliery ...
The view from Hanover Street, Hanley
The camera was looking towards the west from Hanover Street in Hanley. In the murk on the left are the two winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery with the spire of St Margaret's Church, Wolstanton on the ...
The view from Primrose Hill, Hanford
The view north east towards Sideway from Primrose Hill in Hanford as it was in 1964. In the centre of the photograph is Stafford Colliery with its waste tip, once part of the Stafford Coal & Iron Company. ...
The view north from Vicarage Road in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north from the end of Vicarage Road, at the entrance to Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The houses in Basford are in the distance, in the foreground is the Diamond Clay Works. ...
The view over Stoke-on-Trent from Bath Street
The camera is looking eastwards over Stoke from the corner of Boon Avenue and Bath Street. Bath Street leads down to the old Stoke Library building on London Road. In the distance is the spoil tip and ...
The view south east from Boon Avenue, Penkhull
Looking southeast wards from the heights of Boon Avenue over Stoke towards the spoil tip of Fenton Collieries with Parkhall ,and possibly, Mossfield in the far distance. On the right hand side are two ...
The view west from Edgefield Lane, Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking over "Crosswinds" bungalow south west from the higher ground of Stockton Brook. The chimney in the left centre (now demolished) belonged to Stockton Brook water Pumping Station and the waste tip ...
The West Cannock Colliery Company Offices, Cannock Road, Hednesford.
The National Coal Board sold the building in about 1970, when it became a car spares retailer known as F.L.I.P. managed by Joe Hubbard. It later became a shop selling equestrian equipment. Joe Hubbard ...
The Winding Engine House, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
Two men looking at a tachograph in the winding engine house. On the left is George Ponder, Chief Electrical Engineer who lived at Brereton. He was promoted and left to work in Warwickshire in 1964 and ...
Thor's Cave, Leek & Manifold Light Railway
Thor's Cave looms over the Manifold Valley in this view. Also pictured is Thor's Cave Station on the Leek & Manifold Light Railway, which served the village of Wetton and had a waiting and refreshment ...
Timber drag at Hollington Quarry
Workers at Hollington Quarry with a horse team and timber drag. The timber was probably being delivered for use as props and supports in the quarrying process.
Hollington Stone was used to repair stonework ...