1770s Pumping Engine for Hawkesbury Colliery, Bedworth
General section of pumping engine for Hawkesbury Colliery, Bedworth, Warwickshire.
When it was set to work in 1777, this single-acting engine with a 58 inch cylinder and 8 foot stroke was the largest ...
1780s 'Sun & Planet' Engine mounted on a 4-wheeled Truck
Reverse section of portable 'sun & planet' engine for Reynolds & Co., Ketley, Shropshire.
Reynolds & Co. ordered two of these highly unusual engines for winding coal from mines. The engines were ...
1790s 40 Horse Engine for Cumbrian Colliery
Reverse general view of 40 horse engine for John Christian Curwen, Workington, Cumbria, January 1794.
During the 1790s Boulton & Watt engines used a variety of arrangements to work pumps to extract ...
1790s 6 Horse Crank Engine for Cockshead Colliery
General view of 6 horse crank engine for John Sparrow & Co., Cockshead Colliery, Norton–in–the–Moors, near Burslem, Staffordshire, August 1793.
This was the second engine supplied to Cockshead Colliery ...
1790s Double-acting Engine for Hebburn Colliery
Front view and section of the pit showing the V Bob, Hebburn Colliery, County Durham, May 1798.
Another engine from the important North Eastern colliery market. These drawings show a double-acting ...
1790s Double-acting Engine for Hebburn Colliery
General view of engine for Hebburn Colliery, County Durham, January 1798.
Another engine from the important North Eastern colliery market. These drawings show a double-acting engine with a 63 inch ...
1790s Pumping Engine for Cockshead Colliery
Reverse general view of pumping engine for John Sparrow & Co., Cockshead Colliery, Norton–in–the–Moors, near Burslem, Staffordshire, May 1792.
This drawing, of an engine with a 48½ inch cylinder, ...
1790s Pumping Engine for Gateshead Park Colliery
Outline elevation and plan of proposed engine house for Sir Charles Brandling, Gateshead Park Colliery, Northumberland, circa 1794.
The collieries of the North East were another important market ...
1790s Pumping Engine for Gateshead Park Colliery
Reverse general view of engine for Sir Charles Brandling, Gateshead Park Colliery, Northumberland, February 1794.
The collieries of the North East were another important market for Boulton & Watt, ...
Adverts from the Oratory Magazine.
Two adverts for local businesses from the Oratory church magazine. Church magazines contained many adverts of this nature. Rudge, Brown and Co. were a coal merchants at Monument Lane Wharf off St Vincent ...
Hamstead Colliery
In April 1875 a company was formed to buy the Hamstead estate from G.C. Calthorpe of Perry Hall. He then leased a further 1500 acres of land to the newly founded colliery company. The first seam of coal ...
Hamstead Colliery
Photograph of Hamstead Colliery Pit bottom after the fire, 1908
Hamstead Colliery Coal
Hamstead Colliery Coal at Wharf, Hamstead Hill. The haulage firm of W.T. Stubbs are not listed in the trade directories of the period but they appear (from the front vehicle) to have been located in Handsworth....
Hamstead Colliery Disaster March 1908
In 1875 the Hamstead Colliery Company purchased the Hamstead estate to look for coal; the colliery, by Great Barr station, was launched in July. Coal was essential for industry, and for domestic heating. ...
Hamstead Colliery Disaster March 4th 1908
The deaths of 29 miners in the disaster shocked the local community. Funds were raised in a variety of ways for families of the victims. Several commemorative postcards were issued such as this one which ...
Hamstead Colliery Disaster: The Miners' Last Message
This card was issued following the fire at Hamstead Colliery on March 4th 1908. The miners' names listed are: A.Curtis, J.Guest, H.Watts, T.Cole, T.Johnson and Joe Hodgkiss.The writing on the board was ...
Hamstead Colliery Pumping Machinery
Undated photograph.
Hamstead Colliery, Hamstead
The Hamstead Brickworks in a state of dereliction on 19th June 1968. The brickworks, which is listed in directories as being part of Hamstead Colliery, was situated behind the houses of Hamstead Village, ...