tarboat's photos with the keyword: silverdale

Buildings at the Rosemary Hill Tileries on Cemetery Road, Silverdale. The was a brickworks operating on this site from before 1841 when it was occupied by William Brough. John Nash Peake took on the yard in 1875 and then Walley and Alsop making tiles in 1921. From 1926 to 1975 it was T E Walley and then G H Downing Ltd until sold to Steetley brick in 1981. A year later Steetley closed the works and transferred production to Knutton Tileries nearby. The marl hole continued in use to supply other works until after 2006 when it became a landfill with significant subsequent problems for the locals due to smells.

This footrill at Haying Wood, Silverdale was run by the McCready family. These small coal mines were common in this part of North Staffordshire.

A pair of class 25 locomotives wait at Silverdale Station whilst the crew collect the single line token from the machine in the office. The train is carrying coal from the nearby Holditch Colliery.

A pair of class 25 locomotives wait at Silverdale Station whilst the crew collect the single line token from the machine in the office. The train is carrying coal from the nearby Holditch Colliery.

The footrail of the Little Sherriff Colliery was owned by the Apedale Hall Colliery Co., Ltd. It was sunk in the 1980s to work the Winghay seam lying between the Watermills footrails and Silverdale Colliery. It closed in 1996.

Bank Top footrail, Silverdale, March 1982.

Silverdale Colliery was first sunk in the 1830s and went on to be the last deep mine operating in North Staffordshire when the final coal was worked here in December 1998. This is the No.17 shaft which was 1019 feet deep. There were four shafts numbered 14, 15 16 & 17 and four surface drifts in the 1980s.

Silverdale Colliery. 47 354 sets off to run around its train of MGR hoppers before pushing them under the bunker for loading.

Another view from one of my 1980s trips around the private mines in North Staffordshire. The Great Row Colliery Company operated six mines at this time; this is the winding house and tipping stage at their Hollywood Lane Mine at Silverdale.

A coal train from Holditch Colliery pauses at the long closed Silverdale Station to collect the single line token. The loading bunker in the background was for coal from Silverdale Colliery just off to the right of frame. This section of the Newcastle to Market Drayton line was retained for a number of years as far as the Madeley chord to allow coal from Holditch and Silverdale to reach the West Coast main line.

In 1921 Walley & Alsop purchased the brick and tile works formerly run by John Nash Peake in Cemetery Road, Silverdale which were known as Rosemary Hill Tileries. T E Walley took sole control in 1926 and by 1937 the works was run by T E Walley Ltd. G.H. Downing & Co. Ltd. bought the business in 1975 but this only lasted until 1981 when the works was sold to Steetley and then closed, with production transferred to Knutton.

A miner trudging out of the drift at Hollywood Lane Mine, Bank Top, Silverdale. This was one of several footrails operated by the Great Row Colliery Co.Ltd around the North Staffordshire coalfield.

There is plenty of supervision in the cabin during the loading the MGR hoppers under the bunker at Silverdale Colliery. The train was probably heading for Fiddler's Ferry power station when it departed behind Brush type 4 47 354.

A pair of 25s, at the head of coal fulls from Holditch Colliery, pause at Silverdale Station to collect the single line token for the section to Madeley Junction. The tablet machine was kept in the former booking office.

Hauler and tippler at the mouth of the adit to a small mine at Silverdale. This was the Coppice Mine operated by Coppice Colliery Ltd. All long gone now.

Silverdale Colliery was first sunk in the 1830s and went on to be the last deep mine operating in North Staffordshire when the final coal was worked here in December 1998. This is the No.17 shaft which was 1019 feet deep. There were four shafts numbered 14, 15 16 & 17 and four surface drifts in the 1980s.

Track from the hauler leading into the adit at one of the many private coal mines in the Silverdale area of North Staffordshire.

I have installed a new scanner and am astonished at the improvement achieved in scannning old negatives. This one is from a 1982 trip to the woods not far from Silverdale Colliery in North Staffordshire. There were several private mines around Bank Top, one of which boasted this fine winding house working drifts in three directions. All gone now.