tarboat's photos with the keyword: keystone

Keystone over the door to the offices of the former Stanley Colliery which was owned by the Mapperley Colliery Company. Sunk in the early 1890s this colliery known locally as 'Nibby Pit'. It closed in 1959 but several of the buildings remain in industrial use.

There is a terrace of four houses, numbers 228-234 Greenacres Road, Oldham, that was built in the early 1870s as Cambrian Terrace. Over the door of each house is a stone head and associated decorative work which is really attractive and eyecatching. I wonder why this was not done more often, and whether they were meant to be specific characters?