£19.99
Herbert Chester
Publication Date: 2002
Format & Edition: Hardback, Second Edition
Pagination: 191 Pages, Illustrated
Condition: New
Genre: Mining & Industrial Heritage
Status: In Stock
The History of the Cheadle Coalfield by Herbert Chester. The Cheadle coalfield lies to the east of Stoke on Trent and the North Staffordshire Coalfield. It covers an area of about 20 square miles. The area is also rich in ironstone.
The coal and ironstone has been worked for a number of centuries and the 1880 edition of the Ordnance Survey shows 66 coal mines, 15 coal/ironstone and 28 ironstone mines. Nowadays there is very little evidence of the former industrial activity of the coalfield. Most of the evidence has been destroyed or overgrown and tramways have been converted to metalled roads.
This is a detailed history of the working of the Cheadle Coalfield, covering some 600 years.
When Adam Delved
Blackdamp and Fire Baskets
The Gentry are Interested
The Partnerships
The Duke Stamps his Mark
The Woodhead Colliery
The Dilhorne Colliery
Bowers’ Woodhead Colliery
Around the Coalfield
Robert Plant Story
The Bowers’ Empire
The Twentieth Century Coalfield
Shallow Mining.