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 ...
Demolition of Wolstanton Colliery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Wolstanton Colliery was sunk in 1916. By the 1960s it was considered a super-mine, with the deepest mineshafts in Britain, producing over 1 million tons of coal and was one of the biggest employers of ...
Diglake colliery, Audley, Newcastle-under-Lyme
On the 14th January 1895, 77 miners lost their lives at Diglake when an inrush of water from old workings flooded the mine. The mine was never re-opened following the disaster.
Disused screens at Leycett colliery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Fanny Deakin, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Fanny Deakin was a Labour then Communist councillor for Newcastle-under-Lyme. She fought for better maternity care and equality after growing up poverty stricken in Silverdale. Over the course of her ...
Gas engines, 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 ...
Holditch sinkings, Chesterton
A view of the Holditch sinkings at Chesterton, showing the winding wheel for the mine. The sinking at Holditch was to enable deeper coal seams to be reached.
Jamage Colliery, Talke, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph was taken after the rescue of some pit ponies that had been trapped underground for 21 days. Two underground explosions occurred on the 25th November 1911 killing 6 men and 27 ponies. ...
Kent's Lane Colliery, Silverdale
Coal wagons from Shelton, Longton and Wolverhampton, can be seen loaded up in the foreground of this postcard, with the names of various companies they supplied on the side.
Silverdale colliery was ...
Kent's Lane Colliery, Silverdale
Kent's Lane Colliery was in Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, it opened in 1830 to provide coal to the Silverdale ironworks and was managed by the Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Company. After nationalisation ...
Kent's Lane Colliery, Silverdale
Kent's Lane Colliery was in Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, it opened in 1830 to provide coal to the Silverdale ironworks and was managed by the Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Company. After nationalisation ...
Laboratory at Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
This photograph shows the by-products produced from 5cwt of coal. Most of the coal from Birchenwood was used for coke and other by-products.
Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, most of the coal ...
Laboratory 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 ...
Loaded underground tram reaching the head of the drift at Apedale, Chesterton
Loomer Bridge, footpath from Mount Pleasant, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph captures three boys against the background of the pyramid-like slag heap from one of the local coal mines.
Map of colliery workings near Harecastle Tunnel, Kidsgrove
This is a map of colliery workings near Harecastle Tunnel in Kidsgrove.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund
Map of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Silverdale
This map shows Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1925. It also marks the Poor Law Institutions or workhouses on London Road and Keele Road.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund
Merry Widow, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph was taken during the 1921 Miners Strike.
During strikes, if miners knew where the coal seams outcropped, they would dig small open cast mines, such as the one pictured.
People relied ...