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A sad corner of the Chatterley Whitfield Colliery with the headgear of the Platt shaft in the background.

There are few places in the UK where you can see three colliery headgears at once. This is Chatterley Whitfield Colliery in North Staffordshire which closed in 1976 and was subsequently operated as a mining museum until that failed in 1993. The headgears seen are, from the left, Institute, Platt and Hesketh shafts. There is a fourth headgear on the Winstanley shaft which is to the left of the photographer.