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Gravel workings at Huntley, near Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape including a gravel covered area and a worker, at Huntley, near Cheadle.

Great Beauty and Great Riches - A pamphlet concerning the proposed Grand Commercial Canal, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

A frustrating meeting has taken place at the Star and White Hart Inn, Uttoxeter. Supporters of a scheme to build a new canal in Staffordshire have grown weary of attempts to discredit their project ...

Greenway Hall Road, Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north west from Greenway Hall Road over Norton Green towards the waste tip at Chatterley Whitfield. In the bottom right hand corner are the buildings of Greenways Primary School and in the left ...

Hamilton Infants School, Birches Head, Hanley

Hamilton Infants School, founded in 1913, is on Barthomley Road (formerly Hamilton Road) in Birches Head. The buildings in the foreground have been demolished and a new school built. In the background ...

Hanley Deep Pit Colliery

The winding gear of No.1 shaft of Deep Pit Colliery in Hanley. This photograph was taken from Town Road with one of the conical spoil tips just visible behind the winding gear. Hanley Deep pit was ...

Hem Heath Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent

This photograph shows the main entrance to Hem Heath Colliery off Trentham Road. The first shaft at Hem Heath was started in 1924 for the Stafford Coal and Iron Company with the second started after ...

Hem Heath Colliery, Trentham.

Hem Heath colliery was one of the biggest in the area and was located in the south of the North Staffordshire coalfield at Trentham. The 'Big A' headstock stood defiantly as an icon to the mining industry ...

Hill Street, Stoke upon Trent.

From near the top of Hill Street, a view south east down towards Campbell Place at the bottom. In the distance is the spoil tip of the Glebe Colliery, Fenton, Glebedale Park today. On the left, halfway ...

Holsten House, Pinnox Street, Tunstall

Holsten House in Pinnox Street was the home of Walter Sylvester who invented and patented the "Sylvester", a hand operated device, to help miners remove pit props in mines. It was also known as a "Dog ...

Hot Lane and Sneyd Colliery tip, Burslem

A view north east from the top of Hot Lane with the spoil tip belonging to Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks on the right. Crossing the road is the cable of the aerial ropeway which connected the colliery ...

Hot Lane, Burslem

This is the view north east along Hot Lane from just beyond the loop Line railway bridge. In the background is the spoil tip of Sneyd Colliery and just visible, the aerial cableway used to move waste ...

House on Clanway Lane, Tunstall

The house in the photograph stood on Clanway Lane, now Adams Avenue in Newfield, Tunstall. In the background are the workings of Clanway Brickworks, adjacent to Clanway Farm. They were part of the Berry ...

Howlett's Firecaly pit, Cobridge

In the foreground is Howlett's fireclay pit and behind the lower slopes of Hanley Deep Pit spoil tip. The Bassey Mine Coal seam outcrops in the fireclay pit and was being worked alongside the clay. The ...

Howson's bottle ovens, Eastwood Works, Hanley

George Howson & Sons were manufacturers of sanitary ware at the Eastwood Works in Hanley. The company started in the 1860s and was finally sold to Armitage Shanks in 1966. The photograph shows the bottle ...

Huntley Earthworks. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape including a view of the Earth Works at Huntley, Staffordshire. Taken on April 27th 1933.

Huntley Earthworks. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape including a view of the earthworks at Huntley, Staffordshire.

Huntley Earthworks. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape including a view of the earthworks at Huntley, Staffordshire. Taken on April 27th 1933.

J Hewitt Sons works, Fenton.

Joseph Hewitt & Co. operated the Fenton Low Brick and Marl work was alongside the Biddulph Valley and Leek branch of the old North Staffordshire Railway. The line opened in 1859 and was finally closed ...