Sneyd Colliery, burslem
The photograph was taken from the entrance to the colliery from Sneyd Terrace which was just off Moorland Road in the area that is now Lingard Street. The camera is looking south east towards the head ...
Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
A huge electrical generator at Sneyd Colliery in 1920. These generators were powered by steam turbine and were immensely powerful. They would provide almost all of the electrical power used by the colliery....
Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
Sneyd colliery was located between Burslem and Smallthorne, and not at Sneyd Green some one and a half miles away. The coal wagons on the right would be filled and taken down to Burslem to join the loop ...
Sneyd Cricket Club ground and spoil tip, Burslem
Sneyd Cricket Club ground was just off Sandbach Road, in the shadow of the spoil tip belonging to Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. Running through the middle of the photograph are the cables of the aerial ...
Spark Street, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking eastwards along Spark Street (Park Street until the 1950s renaming) down towards London Road. At the bottom is the frontage of the Minton pottery works with one of the bottle ovens ...
Spoil tips and tramways near Fenton Road, Bucknall
This photograph was taken east of Fenton Road looking towards Bucknall. The disturbed land in the foreground is a mixture of spoil tips and embankments for colliery tramways.
St Margaret's Mission Church, Victoria Road, Fenton Low
The mission church of St Margaret and St Anthony in St Anthony's Row off Victoria Road in Fenton. Behind is the spoil tip of Berry Hill Collieries.
A small church was opened around 1896 as a mission ...
Stafford Coal & Iron Company Colliery, Old Sideway Road, Stoke-on-Trent
A view south east from Old Sideway Road area in Boothen towards the Stafford Coal and Iron Company's colliery. The two winding gear towers can be seen in the centre of the photograph, with the waste tips ...
Star and Garter Road, Normacot
The sand and gravel quarries can be seen to the left.
Tanner's fireclay pit, Cobridge
Tanner's fireclay pit was at the end of Purbeck Street (previously George Street), just off Leek New Road in Cobridge. This photograph shows the southern face of the pit, with the houses along Sneyd Street ...
The Black Bull Inn, Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent
The Black Bull public house was on the corner of Bridge Street and Tunstall Road in Brindley Ford. It is nom longer vopen and has been converted into a dwelling. The slag tips on the right are from Robert ...
The bottom of Basford Bank, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking northwards from Etruria Road close to the bottom of Basford Bank towards Wolstanton Colliery. On the skyline are the houses in May Bank, built from the 1920s onwards.
The foreground is a jumble ...
The Chatterley Whitfield mineral line bridge in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north along Chell Heath Road towards Oxford Road in Fegg Hayes. The bridge is carrying the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (off to the right) into Tunstall and ...
The Coal Miners' Address to the Public - A notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
So-called 'blackleg' labour has been a controversial feature of industrial tension for generations.
Traitors
When North Staffordshire's miners formed a trade union in the early 1830s, their masters ...
The Fowlea Brook Valley from Hollywall Lane, Goldenhill
A panoramic view west from Holywall lane in Goldenhill over the Fowlea Brook Valley towards Bradwell Woods. On the left hand edge is Westport Lake and the lines of coal trucks mark the route of the main ...
The George Hotel, Burslem
The George Hotel on the corner of Swan Square and Nile Street in Burslem. The present building dates from 1929. There has been an inn or pub on the site, named variously the George or George and Dragon, ...
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 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).