View of the Gypsum Works, Stowe-by-Chartley,
Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. The shaft was near Stowe. Gypsum was sent from Normanwood to London to make castings, particularly for dentists. ...
View towards Tunstall from the top of The Sytch, Burslem
The Sytch was the hill up to Burslem from Brownhills. The photograph is looking north east with Westport Road (formerly Liverpool Road) in the foreground. What is now Federation Road would be going off ...
Visitors at Hilton Main Colliery, Essington
A group of visitors pictured at Hilton Main Colliery, near Essington.
Hilton Main Colliery started production on 30 September 1924 with an output of around 350,000 tons. The pit remained in production ...
Walkers and grazing cattle - Willenhall?
Men walking in a what appears to be a disused industrial area. In the background are a chimney and a coal mining landscape. On the horizon are church spires.
Wall-Butts Colliery, Bilston: lithograph
Showing a coloured section of the strata in Wall-Butts colliery, Bilston (depth of various measures 112 yards.)'Standidge & Co., Litho., [lithographers] London.'
Watermills Colliery Chimney Shaft, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Remains of the Watermills Colliery chimney shaft, Apdale. Harry Corfield former accountant for Midland Coke Co. in the foreground.
Wednesbury - A Tilt Engine: pen and ink drawing
'A Tilt Engine for forcing of Water done by John Cooper Carpenter in the parsh (sic) of Wednesbury.' A working drawing showing twin buckets filled by a stream of water, which rise and fall alternately ...
West Cannock Collieries, No.1 Pit, First Aid Team
The only named members of the winning team are third from the right: Samuel Davies and second from right : Jeavon Burton. The caption underneath the picture reads: "West Cannock Collieries, No.1 Pit. ...
West Cannock Colliery Engine, "Stafford"
West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites:
No.1 plant (pit) was sunk in 1869 and closed in 1958 it had a downcast shaft and an upcast shaft.
No.2 plant was sunk in 1871, wound its first coal in ...
West Cannock Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
Pictured are Miners in the West Cannock Colliery Team, who won the Cannock Chase Coal-Owners Association Mines Rescue Challenge Cup in 1934.
Back row left to right: E Archer (Capt.), E Rutter, P Stanley ...
West Cannock Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
The miners were winners of Cannock Chase Coal Owners Challenge Cup 1943.
West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites:
No.1 plant (pit) was sunk in 1869 and closed in 1958 it had a downcast shaft and ...
West Cannock Colliery, Hednesford
An aerial view looking south over West Cannock Colliery on the southern edge of Cannock Chase. The road running from left to right in the top of the photograph is the A460 between Rugeley and Hednesford....
West Cannock Colliery, No 3 Hednesford
View of mine buildings and winding gear. One coal truck with the name of the colliery painted on side is standing by the railway.
West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites:
No.1 plant (pit) was ...
West Cannock New Colliery, Brindley Heath, Hednesford
The West Cannock Colliery Company's Number 5 Plant was sunk in 1914 and was known as as the Tackeroo plant or 'Fives'. It was closed in 1982. Coal trucks van be seen on the upper level and a workman ...
West Cannock No 5 Pit
An aerial view of West Cannock No 5 Pit and the causeway across Rising Brook Valley, between Hednesford and Rugeley on Cannock Chase coal mine. A balloon advertising Staffordshire Building Society can ...
West Cannock No.1 Colliery, Hednesford
An aerial view of West Cannock No.1 Colliery which was situated near Pye Green, Hednesford. It was sunk in 1869 on Green Heath Common. the colliery closed 1958
Weston-on-Trent - Shirleywich Saltworks: sepia wash drawing
'Shirleywich Saltworks.' Showing a street of cottages, with several smoking furnace chimneys on the right. There is a wagon on the road and a man walking with his dog in the foreground.'T. P. W.,' [T. ...
Wetton - Lead Oar at Ectonhill: engraving
'Lead Oar of an Eight sided form at Ectonhill.'Anonymous.