Slater's Directory 1851.
Joseph Smethhurst. Waterloo colliery, Hanley ( Near Nelson Place. )
1896 Midland Coal, Coke & Iron Co.
Manager - W H Goodwin, Under Manager - Isaac Lawton. Underground 227, aboveground 23. Coal: 10ft; 8ft; Bullhurst. Watermills footrails worked by the Midland Company.
1949, Watermills Colliery Company, H H Price, Apedale Chesterton.
Watermills No.5 Apedale (maintenance only), 1 underground.
Watermills No.6 Apedale, coal: Brown Mine, 13 underground, 5 aboveground.
Watermills No.7 Apedale, coal: Ash, 10 underground, 3 aboveground.
Colliery near to the farm at 873 539 app, shown working 1874/5 O/S. Connected by mineral railway to the N.S.R. Biddulph Valley Line.
Working Coal and ironstone.
Two further collieries connected by a branch from the mineral line shown working 1874/5 O/S.
Small colliery and level at G.R. 873 541 app.
Colliery working coal and ironstone at G.R. 871 544 app.
1880 Wedgwood Coal and Iron Co., Newchapel. Frederick B. Smart manager and liquidator
Wedgwood Coal & Iron Company until circa 1883, then Wedgwood Colliery Company. Working abandoned 1886, colliery closed 1887.
The mineral royalties were acquired by Chatterley Whitfield Collieries.
N.S.I.M.M. Engrs.
A. B. Anderson, Wedgwood Coal & Iron Co, Tunstall, elected 1874.
Thomas Clews, Wedgwood Coal & Iron Co, Tunstall, elected 1874.
1875 - James Potts, Manager Wedgwood Colliery, Tunstall.
Cat. Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
Wedgwood 1986 Coal; Twist: Burnwood; Rawhurst. Abandoned Dec. 1886.
Ironstone: Burnwood; Brown Mine. Abandoned Dec. 1886.
7SW 1925. G 2.3. H 3.
Wedgwood Coal: Twist, abandoned 1886.
7SW 1925. F 3. G 2.3. H 2.3.
Wedgwood Coal: Old Whitfield (1881).
7SW 1925. D 4.5. E 4.5.
Wedgwood* - Coal: Little Row; Rough; 7ft (1876).
Plans: Engineer's Office, L.M.S.R. Crewe*.
7SW 1925. D 4. E 4.5.
*Possibly small colliery at 5405 879 immediately adjacent to the East side of the N.S.R. Biddulph Valley Line. Probably bought out by the railway company.
1896 Wellington, Tunstall. William Collinson, Goldenhill, Tunstall. Underground 10, aboveground
2. Coal: Great Row; Little Row.
Cat. Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
Wellington 2811; Coal: Peacock. Ironstone: Bassey Mine. Abandoned Nov. 1891.
11NE 1925. A 11.
Wellington 3651 Coal: Great Row, Little Row. Abandoned Mar. 1897.
6SE 1926. H 11.
Wellington 4690 ; Coal and Ironstone: Cannel Mine. Abandoned 27 Sept. 1904.
6SE 1926 H 11.12.
Ralph Handley, born circa 1799 at Harriseahead, 1851 living in Duke Street, Fenton. In 1853 was a coalmaster at Wetley Colliery,Caverswall.
1905 Geological Survey In 1862 at the time of the original survey coal was being raised on the Wetley Moor from two seams, the four foot or Crabtree and the two foot.
Sunk circa 1800 by (?) Lawton. Tenants of the farm.
Originally sunk for the ironstones.
1896 – Whitebarn. John Blaikie, Newcastle, Staffs.
Blackband, Red Mine, Red Shag. Abandoned about 1866.
11SE 1926. F 3.4. G 3.4.
Coal and Ironstone; Bassey Mine Abandoned 1 Feb. 1894.
11SE 1926. F 3.4. G 3.4.
Coal; 7 ft. Banbury. Ab. 8 2 1926.
6SE 1926. D 8.9. E 8.9.
Gibbons Bank.
Coal; 8 ft. Banbury. Ab. 27 6 1926.
6SE 1926. E 8
S Shaw, circa 1828,
On the North are Kidsgrove and Whitehill Collieries, very extensive and productive; the property of Thomas Kinnersley Esqre.
of Clough Hall.
The Whitehills Estate was the first of Kinnersley's acquisitions at Kidsgrove.
White's Directory, 1851 , Whitehill Colliery. T Kinnersley.
Cat Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
Whitehill 8521 - Coal: 7ft Banbury. Abandoned 8 Feb. 1926.
Whitehill; Gibbon';s Bank 8653 , Coal: 8ft Banbury. Abandoned 27 Jun. 1926.
1896 ; Whitehill Farm Kidsgrove, Rookery Colliery Co. To open March 1897.
Cat. Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
8835 (a) Biddulph (b) Coal: Cockshead. Abandoned 4 April 1913.
Whitfield takes its name from a hamlet in the parish of Norton in the Moors and coal had been mined there for centuries. Hulton Abbey rented coal pits in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for the customary rent of one mark (or 13 shillings and fourpence) per year. This was the usual rent to cover one bell pit or one pick man.
The original Whitfield Colliery was half a mile south on the west side of Ball Green. The Gentleman’s Magazine for October 1816 states, “Coal abounds in the Parish and is mined at various depths. The principle works are at Ford Green, Whitfield and Bemersley, at the former price is 5d per hundredweight or 8s and 4d per ton”.
Simeon Shaw in his book ( 1828 ), referring to the eighteenth century says, “Ralph Leigh, 83 years of age in 1813 was employed by John Taylor of Hill Top, (Burslem) to look after his horses and was the first man whose wages were raised from 10d to 1/- per day. With four or six horses he went twice to Whitfield or thrice to Norton in a day, for coal: of which each horse brought back 2 ½ hundredweights on its back; along lanes extremely dirty and roads scarcely passable. At the pit coals then cost 7d the draught, whether 2, 21/2 or 3 hundredweight; for the colliers guessed at the quantity and did not take the trouble to weigh them. The charge for carrying each load from Norton to Burslem was threepence the mile.”
By 1853, Hugh Henshall Williamson was working the Cockshead Coal by two footrails at Ridgeway. Williamson worked westwards and shafts replaced footrails. They were known as the Prince Albert or the Albert Pit and the Laura Pit. The latter being later widened and deepened. The first pits on the Chatterley Whitfield site were sunk by H H Williamson in 1863, they included the Engine Pit, the Middle Pit also known as the Ragmans and an 80yd pit which later became the Institute Pit.
In 1867, the Whitfield Colliery Company Ltd was formed with a capital of £25,000. The company was incorporated on 14 July 1868. However, H H Williamson died on 3 December 1867.
Emanuel Lovekin, in his autobiography, says Orlands (Bawson?) sank the two 10 foot pits at the Whitfield Colliery Company. Mr Andrews the Manager and Mr Joseph Mack Undermanager. Whitfield colliery gave it up and the Chatterley Colliery Company took it off Mr Charles Homer.
It would seem that C J H Homer replaced H H Williamson’s control of the Whitfield Colliery and was responsible for the formation of the company. As we have already stated in 1872 the Chatterley Iron Company Ltd bought the Whitfield Colliery Company. C J H Homer being deeply involved in both companies. In the depression of the 1870’s Homer was determined to invest and expand but could not carry the other directors with him. As a result, some time around 1875-6 he resigned and started, together with the Duke of Sutherland, John, Bourne and John Pender MP, the Stafford Coal & Iron Works at Great Fenton.
This left the Chatterley Company to retrench and continue, and like most other North Staffordshire iron works, to collapse into bankruptcy as competition from foreign ores and steel producers became ever fiercer. However, prior to the final demise of the Chatterley Iron Company, Chatterley Whitfield Collieries Ltd was formed and registered in 1896 and continued until nationalisation.
After the voluntary liquidation of the Chatterley Iron Company in 1879, Joseph Renshaw Wain, the Company Secretary, was appointed as the liquidator to administer the company. His son Edward Brownfield Wain, 1861-1925, was by 1882 the under-manager of Chatterley Whitfield Collieries and manager in 1886. In 1920 he was still the manager and his son, Roger Clement Wain, the under-manager.
A railway connection of 2 miles 55 chains was built to link the Chatterley and Whitfield works in 1878. The paddy trains which operated consisted of ex Barnum and Bailey’s circus vans.
By 1928, the colliery employed 4402 men including 249 boys under 16.
In 1939 the manager was Roger Clement Wain and 3771 men were employed underground and 827 aboveground (a total of 4598 men and boys). During the 1930’s the colliery was the first in the country to achieve an annual production of over 1 million tons of coal per annum.
Slater's Directory 1851.
Thomas Plant and Co., Willfield colliery, Dividy Lane.
Williamson's (Newfield) No's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 9, 13, 93(a)Stoke-on-Trent (b) Ironstone: Red Shagg; Red Mine. Abandoned circa 1857.
11ne 1925. B 10.11. C 10. 11. D 10.11.12. E 11.12.
Williamson's No's 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10(a)Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent (b) Ironstone: Red Shagg; Red Mine (1875).
Plans: R Sneyd, Keele Estate Office, Stoke-on-Trent.
11NE 1925. D 7.8.9. E 7.8.9. F 7.8.
F C Smallwood, 56 High Street, Alsagers Bank, Halmerend.
Winnie footrail, Alsagers Bank coal, household and manufacturing, abandoned Dec. 1948.
Slater's Directory 1851. Wolstanton. Blake and Co.
Two pits shown on the plan of the 4ft coal dated 1855. Abandoned circa 1866. Shaft still in use for ventilation (Danks 1883).
Cat. Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
Apedale ; Wood(a)Audley (b) Coal: 8ft (1857) 7ft (1866).
Cat Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
Wood Lane(a)Audley (b) Coal: Bullhurst, abandoned 24 Jun. 1916.
11NW 1900. H 12.
11NE 1925. G 1. H 1.2.
11SW 1900. A 12.
11SE 1926. A 1.
Footrail, Audley, George Platt. Deliveries c.a.1949.
Hardings wood.
Coal; Little Row, Two Row. Ab. 1858.
6SE 1926. F 6. G 6.
Cat. Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
Woodhead; Clay; Coopers; Kingsley Moor; Ladyswell; Longhouse; Red Shagg.
(a)Cheadle Kingsley (b) coal: Woodhead (1874).
Park Hall Colliery Co. Cheadle.
13SW 1925. H 8.
19NW 1925. A 7.8.9. B 8.10. C 10.11.12. D 10.11.12. E 11.12.
Woodhead; Remington.(a)Cheadle (b) Coal: Woodhead (1855).
Park Hall Colliery Co. Cheadle.
19NW 1925. E 11.12. F 11.12.
19NE 1925. F 1.2. G 1.
Woodhead or Hazlewall 6056.(a)Cheadle Kingsley (b) coal: Woodhead.
Abandoned 15.08.1915
19NW 1925. B 6.7.8.9.10. C 6.7.8.9.10.D 8.9.10. E 8.
1869 William Bowers
1880 Woodhead ( Hazlewall pit ) Trustees of William Bowers.
1896 Woodhead, Cheadle. W E Bowers, Cheadle, Staffs. Manager George Forrester (pro tem).
Coal: Woodhead, underground 54, aboveground 17.
1908; W E Bowers, Caverswall Castle, Manager J H Lister, underground 66, aboveground 22.
1949, George Platt, Woodhouse farm, Wood Lane, Bignall End.
Woodhouse No.3 Footrail Coal manufacturing, abandoned March 1948.
Woodhouse No.4 Footrail ; Coal: Top Two Row, underground 5, aboveground 3.
James Bateman, 1834.
Old Colliery with engine pool shown on O/S at 588 895 app.
William James of Ashbourne obtained the mining rights to the Woodhouse Estate at Sandford Hill in 1695. After James died, Obadiah Lane, who held other coal interests and was a partner in the Meir Heath Ironworks, obtained the rights to the Woodhouse Estate.
Lane was also involved in the driving of two gutters. One from Woodhouse Lane to Longton Hall (his residence) and another
from Meir Heath to Longton.
Cat. Ab. Mine Plans, 1929 –
Woodhouse Lane 5827(a)Norton (b) Coal: Silver, abandoned Dec. 1911.
7SW 1925. H 10.
Woodlands 9245 Coal: Peacock; Great Row, abandoned 20 Dec. 1927.
11NE 1925. A 12. B 12. 12NW 1925. B 1.
Woodlands 9411 – Coal: Peacock; Great Row, abandoned 20 Apr. 1928.
11NE 1925. B 12.
1931 Woodlands. Mrs K E (Katie) Bean, Reg. Office Clanway Farm, Tunstall. General Manager
G L Moston.
Woodlands, Colliery Company, Clanway, Tunstall. Coal: Spencroft; Great Row, 5000 tons p.a.
Marl worked. Underground 16, above ground 12.
E Proctor & Company, Brown Edge Colliery, S-o-T.
Cat. Ab. Mine Plans, 1929
Woodside 3358
(a) Norton in the Moors (b) Coal: Crabtree. Abandoned 28 Aug 1895.
12NW 1925. A 11.