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Milwich School Group,
Milwich School opened in 1833.
Miner loading the explosives car, Lea Hall Colliery
The flat-topped wagon stands on rails outside the underground station, being filled with boxes of explosives by a miner dressed in donkey jacket and safety helmet.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned ...
Miner's Association badge, North Staffordshire
A copper alloy badge issued by the North Staffordshire Miners' Federation. This badge indicated that the wearer was a fully paid up member of the Federation either up to or commencing from June 1903. ...
Miners at Tamworth Colliery
Tamworth Colliery, during the filling in of the mine. Left to right are Ernest Florendine, Ronny Geldard, Roy Moore, Jack Ealing, A. Smith, Eric Saddler, and Bert Wilson.
Miners at the coal face, Cannock Chase Colliery No. 9
These three miners were brothers from the Heath Hayes area.
Miners celebrating at Littleton Colliery
Group of miners celebrating mining one million tonnes of coal between 1986-87. Two miners in the centre are holding wine glasses, while their manager Mr Eddie Blakeley pours them a drink.
Front row ...
Miners' celebration at Lea Hall Colliery
An underground photograph showing coal tub with "The 1 1/2 millionth ton 20th Dec 1965. Some of the men and women pictured are wearing working clothes, and there are Christmas hampers on the ground between ...
Miners examining a safety helmet, at the Fairlady (Coppice Colliery) Heath Hayes
Group of miners on afternoons in working clothes carrying 'keg' or 'bucket' battery powered electric lamps. The two men in the centre are looking at a helmet, as it is thought that all of the miners pictured ...
Miners on strike, Uttoxeter
Striking miners pictured in P.G. Brisbourne's yard after chopping wood. The men include: Mr Alcock, Percy Brisbourne, Bill Brisbourne, J.C. Dunnicliff, Mr Bullard, Jack Rowlett, Peter Brisbourne and ...
Miners outside the Roebuck Inn, Cheadle
The Roebuck Inn stood on The Green in the Brookhouses part of Cheadle. It was in existence by 1834 but closed during the 1960s. The last licencee was Norman Plant
Miners pictured at Conduit Colliery, Norton Canes
Conduit Colliery Company had several collieries in the Norton Canes/Brownhills area. The main two were No. 3 and No. 4 collieries. No. 3
had three shafts. Sinking began there in 1858, but it was some ...
Miners' Rescue Team, Silverdale
The Miners' Rescue Team are pictured here in all of their equipment. A canary in its cage is sitting on the box on the floor, and was used to detect the first evidence of Methane Gas in the mine. Walter ...
Miners underground, Lea Hall Colliery
This 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 ...
Miners wearing breathing apparatus, Mines Rescue Station, Victoria Street, Hednesford
The men wearing the apparatus are, left: Albert Payton, son of Jos Payton and, right: Samuel Davies. In the centre is Jos Payton, Superintendent of the Mines Rescue Station, Hednesford.
The station ...
Mines Rescue Team, Chatterley Whitfield, Stoke-on-Trent
Men of the Chatterley Whitfield No.4 Rescue Brigade pose with their latest respirators. Respirators were used to allow rescue personnel locate and help miners who had been overcome by firedamp (methane ...
Miniature portrait of Elizabeth Brougham born in Wybunbury Cheshire 1769
This is a miniature portrait of Elizabeth Brougham who married John Brougham, a tax officer at St Giles Church Newcastle-under-Lyme. She was born Elizabeth Hall in Wynbury, Cheshire on the 14th May 1769 ...
Miniature portrait of John Brougham, junior born in Betley 1791
This is a miniature portrait of John Brougham, the son of John and Elizabeth Brougham.
He was born in Betley in 1791 and married Maria Tittensor in Leeds in 1824 and they had nine children together. ...
Miniature portrait of John Brougham, senior born in Burslem 1757
This is a miniature profile of a man thought to be John Brougham, a tax officer.
He was born in 1757 and died sometime around the late 1820s or early 1830s.
Much of this information comes from the ...