Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
Lantern slide containing a view of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip from Bank Haye Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north along the Bank Haye Brook valley towards the waste tip of Chatterley Whitfield colliery. Mow Cop appears faintly on the horizon to the left of the photograph beyond the electricity pylons. ...
Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery waste tip from the Biddulph Valley branch line. The camera is looking north, with the houses on Catharine Road to the left of the photograph. This section ...
Chatterley Whitfield Valley, Stoke-on-Trent
Meadow land in the Fegg Hayes area of the city. Cutting through the centre of the picture from left to right is the Biddulph Valley branch line. The spoil tip in the background belongs to Norton Colliery, ...
Chell from Fir Tree Farm, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view east from Fir Tree Farm over the Ford Green Brook valley towards Chell Heath. Fir Tree Farm is just off Whitfield Road in Ball Green. Running towards the top of the photograph is Cornhill ...
Children's day out, Kidsgrove.
During the 1984 - 1985 miner's strike there were ten womens action groups in north Staffordshire who supported the striking miners. They ran food centres, organised collections, manned picket lines and ...
Church Bank Pottery, Bank Street, Tunstall
The imposing chimney of Church the Bank pottery. The original Church Bank works was built by Robert Beswick in 1842 and passed through several hands before becoming Thomas Booth took over in 1868, manufacturing ...
Cinderhill Hall, Longton
Cinderhill Hall or House was a colliery manager's house. In 1923 to 1933 this was the home of Thomas Yates, manager and later Director of Mossfield Colliery. It has since been demolished and the area ...
Clough Hall Colliery Anti-Union Notice - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Colliery owners did not take kindly to miners' early attempts to form trades unions.
Market forces
Most believed in an 'iron law of wages,' which dictated that wages would be related to market forces.
This ...
Coal getting at Longton
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926.
This photograph was probably taken from the East Vale /Meir Hay area of Longton. It’s the location of the much earlier Meir Hay Colliery. There ...
Coal getting, Longton
Coal getting during the 1926 miners' strike. Photograph taken by J.A.Lovatt on the outskirts of Longton.
This photograph was probably taken from the East Vale /Meir Hay area of Longton. It’s the ...
Coal getting, Longton
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926.
This photograph was probably taken from the East Vale /Meir Hay area of Longton. It’s the location of the much earlier Meir Hay Colliery. There were ...
Coal mining by hand
The men is this picture are using hand tools to remove coal from the rock face and are loading it into a wagon. As you can tell from the picture mining was hot, dark and claustrophobic work and the risks ...
Coal outcropping at Longton.
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926.
This photograph was probably taken from the East Vale /Meir Hay area of Longton. It’s the location of the much earlier Meir Hay Colliery. There were ...
Coal Strike 1912. "Coal Getting." Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of people picking surface coal from a steep quarry edge during the strike of 1912.
Coal strike at Florence Colliery in Longton
Coal mining strikes occured in North Staffordshire on a number of occasions during the twentieth century. This images shows people scavanging for coal on waste tips during the 1912 coal strike. Coal was ...
Coal Strike, Longton
A temporary tramway during the Coal Strike of 1926.
Coal strike, Longton
Photograph taken during the Coal Strike of 1926, showing a temporary tramway.