Colliers, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent
Four colliers walk home, dirty and tired, from a shift at Sneyd Colliery. The pit is in the background and the men walk over the loop line Railway Bridge at Cobridge.
Notice the two men on the outside ...
Colliery building, Lea Hall Colliery
View of the area where the clean coal is loaded onto suppliers wagons.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts were started in 1954 and sunk to ...
Colliery bus, Hem Heath Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
The colliery buses contracted from PMT dropped working miners outside the picket lines during the 1984/1985 miner's strike as bus drivers refused to cross the picket lines.
This photograph is reproduced ...
Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
William Harrison's Colliery Rescue Team, winners of Cannock Chase Coal Owners Rescue Cup in 1939. This group photograph includes the six team members together with six competition judges and was taken ...
Colliery Winding House. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing the interior of a colliery winding house and two pit workers. The identity of the colliery is unknown.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...
Colliery Winding House. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing the interior of a colliery winding house and two pit workers. The identity of the colliery is unknown.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...
Colliery, Cannock area
This is possibly a view of Littleton Colliery at Huntington, Cannock soon after sinking a pit shaft in 1898.
Cannock and Huntington Collieries Company started sinking both No. 1 Shaft and No. 2 Shaft ...
Conduit Colliery No.3, Norton Canes
Owned by the Conduit Colliery Company, Conduit Colliery No.3 was first sunk in 1858 but it was some years before coal production started. It was the largest of the Conduit collieries with three shafts. ...
Conduit Colliery, No. 3 Colliery, Norton Canes
View of colliery buildings, with three head frames or head gears and three chimneys in the background. Railway lines with coal tubs in the foreground.
Conduit Colliery Company had several collieries ...
Construction of Rugeley 'A' Power Station
A photograph showing the construction of Rugeley 'A' Power Station and Lea Hall colliery. The chimney and half clad boiler house are the power station and the lower concrete buildings behind the cottage ...
Construction work at 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 ...
Coppice Pit, Brereton (1842-1908)
An exterior view of Coppice Pit, Brereton, near Rugeley. The postcard caption refers to the accident of February 15th, 1908 when the workings were flooded and three men (Albert Curtis, William Jarvis ...
Coulthwaite's Training Stables, Hazelslade, Hednesford
Tom Coulthwaite's stables are the red-roofed buildings in the left middle distance in this colour-tinted postcard view taken from Hednesford Hills, near the present day Raceway. They have since been demolished ...
Coulthwaite's Training Stables, Hednesford
Tom Coulthwaite's stables are the red-roofed buildings in the left middle distance in this colour-tinted postcard view taken from Hednesford Hills, near the present day Raceway. They have since been ...
Daniel Platt & Sons clay pit, Canal Lane, Tunstall
A south east view across the clay pit towards Daniel Platt & Sons, brick & tile manufacturers, Brownhills works on Canal Lane. The company were in Tunstall from 1822 and took over the Brownhills Tileries ...
Deep Pit Colliery, Hanley
Number 1 shaft winding gear at Hanley Deep Pit Colliery. The colliery was originally owned by the Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Company and its coal was taken by rail to the coking ovens at the neighbouring ...
Deep Pit from Broom Street, Hanley
Looking northwards from Broom Street towards Shelton Collieries Deep Pit winding gear and spoil tips. The photograph was taken from near the junction with Plough Street. On then left is the site of Broom ...
Demolition at 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 ...