Made in Stoke-on-Trent

[NellyTheValiant]

On 20/11/2021 at 14:34, Phil1965 said:

When did coal mining end in North Staffordshire?

When Silverdale closed, late 90's/2000

[Conrad]

7 hours ago, NellyTheValiant said:

When Silverdale closed, late 90's/2000

Think there was an open cast mine at Kidsgrove after that.

[Guitar Ray]

On 26/11/2021 at 07:03, Conrad said:

Think there was an open cast mine at Kidsgrove after that.

The whole of the Birchenwood area was open cast mined before the “new road”, houses, doctors surgery were built and the pitch(es) reinstated.  Without checking I’d have said this was early 80’s.

[Conrad]

9 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:

The whole of the Birchenwood area was open cast mined before the “new road”, houses, doctors surgery were built and the pitch(es) reinstated.  Without checking I’d have said this was early 80’s.

I was thinking Acres nook.

[Guitar Ray]

On 11/02/2022 at 18:31, Conrad said:

I was thinking Acres nook.

Was there an open cast mine at Acres Nook?

[Paul6754]

1 hour ago, Guitar Ray said:

Was there an open cast mine at Acres Nook?

 

On 26/11/2021 at 02:03, Conrad said:

Think there was an open cast mine at Kidsgrove after that.

GR, Conrad, I was raised in Kickrew on that side of town.  I can't remember any Open Cast mine in/around the Acres Nook area in the 1960/70's.

Coal Mining ceased at Birchenwood in the 1930's. According to records the Birchenwood site was used to turn Coal into Coke but from the 1930's onwards the coal was obtained from other Pits in the area. Coke production ceased in 1973.  I didn't realize what a big deal Birchenwood was in it's time, attracting a Royal visit from Queen Victoria in 1913. 

Clough Hall Coal and Iron Works

WWW.THEPOTTERIES.ORG

 

[Guitar Ray]

2 hours ago, Paul6754 said:

 

GR, Conrad, I was raised in Kickrew on that side of town.  I can't remember any Open Cast mine in/around the Acres Nook area in the 1960/70's.

Coal Mining ceased at Birchenwood in the 1930's. According to records the Birchenwood site was used to turn Coal into Coke but from the 1930's onwards the coal was obtained from other Pits in the area. Coke production ceased in 1973.  I didn't realize what a big deal Birchenwood was in it's time, attracting a Royal visit from Queen Victoria in 1913. 

Clough Hall Coal and Iron Works

WWW.THEPOTTERIES.ORG

 

I know the area well.  We played on the old disused coke ovens and a lot of the old mine workings locally.  The only open cast I know of in the Kidsgrove area was at Birchenwood.  From memory this was done as much to stabilise the land as it was to extract the remaining coal.  They must have taken a fair bit of coal out though as the big old slack heap from the colliery disappeared, possibly used for the infill afterwards.

[Conrad]

5 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:

Was there an open cast mine at Acres Nook?

Pretty sure there was, I worked there to do a job just for one day, probably early 80s.

[Guitar Ray]

19 hours ago, Conrad said:

Pretty sure there was, I worked there to do a job just for one day, probably early 80s.

Where in Acres Nook? I think the original pit was on the hillside in what we would call Bathpool Park.

[Conrad]

18 minutes ago, Guitar Ray said:

Where in Acres Nook? I think the original pit was on the hillside in what we would call Bathpool Park.

Can’t really remember now, it was around bath pool  park though.

[For Us All]

On 13/02/2022 at 00:41, Conrad said:

Pretty sure there was, I worked there to do a job just for one day, probably early 80s.

Do you know if there is any shale gas still in North Staffordshire?

[Conrad]

Sorry, no idea

[Dangermouse3]

Old photos of the Coke works and Clough Hall colliery 

[MelbourneValiant]

On 13/02/2022 at 10:15, Guitar Ray said:

I know the area well.  We played on the old disused coke ovens and a lot of the old mine workings locally.  The only open cast I know of in the Kidsgrove area was at Birchenwood.  From memory this was done as much to stabilise the land as it was to extract the remaining coal.  They must have taken a fair bit of coal out though as the big old slack heap from the colliery disappeared, possibly used for the infill afterwards.

Behind Gloucester Road, early 70's was open cast, when it closed they built new houses a on Gloucester Road itself. Growing up in the late 70's early 80's we referred to the this area as the blackhills. Its overgrass now, fertilised by dirty pikeys who make it their home very few years.

[Guitar Ray]

4 hours ago, MelbourneValiant said:

Behind Gloucester Road, early 70's was open cast, when it closed they built new houses a on Gloucester Road itself. Growing up in the late 70's early 80's we referred to the this area as the blackhills. Its overgrass now, fertilised by dirty pikeys who make it their home very few years.

Blackhills and Slackwash, which some called Slagwash.