EAW001875 ENGLAND (1946). The Sneyd Colliery and Brick Works, Burslem, from the south, 1946

Ford Green hall

Football ground

Cricket ground

Station building

The coal tips had a habit of over-heating just below the surface, including this one, not far from where I lived in the 1960s. A sprinkler pipe, 300mm to 500mm in diameter, was laid around the tip, about 5m to 10m up from the base. I also remember a very much smaller 3m high mound, 10m across, over-heating in a field on the edge of Cornhill in Norton. In this case the coal was probably dug out many years previously by local folk who possibly had been laid off and had no money coming in. The top of it collapsed, revealing smoking reddish clinker with many voids. I believe that someone did suffer some burns as a result.

Marl Hole - the clay was mainly used for making bricks - it was generally not good enough for pottery.

Pot Bank (=Works) numerous with bottle ovens

Cobridge Station on the Loop Line

North Road Primary School

North Road

Waste Tip from Sneyd Colliery

Sandbach Road

Brick Works

Smallthorne

27 Croft Court where i was born 1948 John Turner

Norton Colliery

Smallthorne Lido - Outdoor Swimming Pool

Burslem Park

Sneyd Colliery

Moorland Road.

Leek New Road.

Moorcroft Pottery factory.

Whitfield Colliery