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Memorial to the 57 men killed in the explosion in the Banbury seam at No.4 Pit, Sneyd Colliery, Burslem, 1st January 1942. It also commemorates the rescue teams who worked to try to save them and also recover the bodies. The official cause of the disaster was found to be that tubs had derailed and damaged an electric cable. Subsequent sparking has ignited coal dust and precipitated the explosion.

Staffordshire Miners' memorial at Apedale. The wheel came from Annesley Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

This morning I took a stroll up the hill to the Staffordshire Miners' memorial at Apedale. The wheel came from Annesley Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

The archway leading from the platform into the booking hall of Stoke-on-Trent railway station war forms the memorial to those employees of the North Staffordshire Railway who fell in the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Their names are recorded on brass plaques on either side of the arch. This being Armistice Day in 2014 there are wreaths recently placed above both plaques.

Stained glass window memorial at Rolls Royce, Derby. This is the Rolls Royce company's tribute and the wording at the bottom of the glass says: "This window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force who in the Battle of Britain turned the work of our hands into the salvation of our country".

The weathered lettering carved into the parapet of Bridge 25 at Whiteley Green on the Macclesfield Canal recalls a long-forgotten tragedy. I consulted the Macclesfield Courier and Herald for Saturday June 30th 1894 and the full story soon emerged. Walter Brindley was a 25 year old journeyman baker and married man who had worked for Joseph France on Park Lane in Macclesfield for five years. Esther Pickford was a 29 year old single mother of three who was working as a domestic servant to Mr France. These two had apparently been walking out together for some time, in spite of his being married. They had been seen together in pubs and at Butley, and it was inevitable that this would come to the attention of Mrs Brindley who, naturally, was not amused and went to the bakery to confront them. Neither would speak to her and that evening he went to his house on Knight Street, turned Mrs Brindley out and moved in his companion Esther Pickford. This action so infuriated the neighbours that a melee broke out, with the house windows being broken and the blinds etc pulled down. The next day (June 20th) there was further public disorder and the police had to find Esther Pickford shelter in a court off Park Lane. Later that day the couple were seen together in Bollington and then vanished. Two days later a boatman found their bodies in the canal at Whiteley Green. Their wrists were tied together with a cloth. Their bodies were taken to the nearby Windmill Inn. The whole sad story was told at the inquest, where the jury entered a verdict of "Found Drowned".

On July 16th 1823, William Wood was set upon and murdered by three men as he returned home to Eyam after selling cloth in Manchester. He was carrying £70, which was a significant sum of money. Two of his assailants were quickly captured; one was hanged and the other died of injuries after attempting suicide. The third was never found. The incident is commemorated by this stone beside the Buxton Old Road between Disley and Whaley Bridge.