Kemball Pit, Fenton
This is the view looking south towards Hem Heath from just off Grove Road in Fenton. Kemball, Pender and Bourne were pits operated by The Stafford Collieries and Iron Works between Sideway and Mount Pleasant. ...
Kemball Pit, Fenton
Stafford Collieries and Iron Works pits in Fenton. On the left is Kemball pit. In the distance, Sutherland and Homer. In between are some of the iron works old furnace buildings. the photograph wqs taken ...
Landscape and Quarry. Unknown Location. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape and Quarry. Unknown Location.
Lane Ends Farm and Victoria Colliery tip, Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking roughly north east from Lane Ends Farm at the end of Handley Street, near Packmoor. The spoil tip on the right belonged to Victoria (Black Bull) Colliery. The colliery operated between ...
Lane Ends. Mellor Street and Victoria Colliery. Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east towards the spoil tip of Victoria Colliery in Black Bull. Mellor Street runs through the middle of the photograph behind the cottage. The red brick building in the centre is St Patrick's ...
Lawn Colliery, Fenton
These ruins are all that remained of site of the old Lawn Colliery. The photograph was taken from Glover's Farm to the west. Lawn Colliery started in the 1860s, producing domestic coal, but like most ...
Leek New Road at Daisy Bank Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking south west from close to the Daisy Bank Bridge along the A53 (Leek New Road) with Sneyd Green to the left and Holden Bridge in the centre distance. The photograph was taken from near Bellerton ...
Leek Road, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Heath House Lane bridge over the Stoke to Leek and Biddulph branch line. The camera is looking south in what Bert Bentley described as "putrid light". On the left is ...
Letters on the Management of Shelton Mines 1 - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Unrest at Shelton Mines!
This booklet contains correspondence in the form of two letters between a mining agent at Shelton Mines and the mine owner's auditor of accounts.
The mining agent has come ...
Libel! - Handbill from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In 1831 the Potters' Union came out in support of North Staffordshire's striking miners.
Speculation
Reports speculated that the potters were intending to follow the miners in striking for improved ...
Lightwood Road at Shooters Hills
Limestone Quarries, Cauldon Low. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the limestone quarries at Cauldon Low.
Loading cart with outcropped coal at Longton
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926.
Loading coal in carts, Longton
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926.
Longton from Park Hall hills
Photograph taken looking south-west. Sand and gravel are being quarried in the foreground.
Longton Hall Lane, Longton
A pit mound can be seen on the right.
Looking north east from near the top of Sturgess Street, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph was taken from close to the corner of Sturgess Street and Bath Terrace in Stoke. Until the 1950s Sturgess Street was called Edward Street. These houses in the top part of Sturgess Street ...
Looking out from from Fenton Park
The view north west from Fenton Park. The greenhouses are partly hidden behind the trees on the left and Berry Hill spoil tip is on the right. St Marks Church tower in Shelton is in the centre of the ...