Longton at the End of the Lane by Kate Box
Kate Box from the North Staffordshire Mining History Group has has examined documents in the Sutherland Papers which provide an insight into the life of North Staffordshire potters during the late eighteenth ...
Map of Mr Smith's Coal in Anchor Ground
This plan shows an area of Anchor coal removed by Mr Smith at Meir Hay. The plan tells us that there was a coal heading 83 feet long, x 4 foot by 4 foot square, driven north east partly through Mr Smith’s ...
Meirheath Colliery Coal Agreement, 1792
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Mearheath colliery
William Hickenbottam and Samuel Yates agree with Thomas ...
Mining Agreement
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April 4th 1791.
Meirheath colliery.
John German John Ball William Donkin and Richard Donkin agree with ...
Money, Deception and Alcohol: Bad Behaviour at the Trentham Wakes
This letter written by Thomas Heath in October 1797 reports an incident which occured at the Trentham Wakes. A man named William Hughes who was employed at the Hanley Colliery Office had borrowed sixteen ...
Mr. Daniel's Time Book, Knowles Colliery, September 10th 1797
This document lists the names of the miners working in the pits (Pooldole). Most of the men were in the same group as their names appear all through the book, with some women’s names but not many.
There ...
Shelton Cottages
This document provides an account of dwelling houses and a list of the names of people who built the houses upon the site of Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803), the Marquis of Stafford's colliery in ...
The Duke of Sutherland versus J. E. Heathcote, Esq: Controversy over Mining Rights in Longton
In the 1890s George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), the third Duke of Sutherland, brought a case against Mr. J. E. Heathcote concerning the Duke's rights to mine for coal and ironstone ...
The Gold Edged Letter by John Burston and Joyce Wilson
John and Joyce from the North Staffordshire Mining History Group were intrigued by a gold edged letter which they discovered amongst mining documents in the Sutherland Papers. Their article 'The Gold ...
The Michael Gammow Letters by John Burston & Joyce Wilson
The Sutherland Papers include two letters from Michael Gammow, Cleveland House, to Joseph Burgess, Foley Coal Office, circa September 1823.
These letters are an exchange of correspondence between Michael ...
The North Staffordshire Mining History Group
The North Staffordshire Mining History Group was established in 2004 born out of an idea by local historian Ian Bailey supported by Stoke-on-Trent City Archivist Chris Latimer. The aim of the group was ...
The Theft of Canal at the Marquis of Stafford's Collieries
This letter from November 1798 refers to a case involving five people who had been 'detected stealing canal from the Marquis of Stafford's Works at Meirheath'.
The letter written by Thomas Heath deliberates ...
Thomas Brundred Ash Mine Agreement, 1792
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Mearheath colliery
Thomas Burndred agrees with Thomas Heath to finish ash mine sinking pit in the Mearhay ( colliery ...
Thomas Burndred Wage Agreement, Meirheath Colliery, 1799
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Meirheath colliery Dec. 3rd 1799
T, Burndred to have five shillings and sixpence per cart load for getting drawing and selling the coals ...
Thomas Colclough Receipt of Payment for Drawing Dirt from the Limestone Pit, 1798
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Mearheath Colliery
Recd June 2nd 1798 of the Marquis of Stafford by Thomas Heath five shillings being an allowance for drawing dirt out of the limestone ...
Thomas Colclough Receipt of Payment for Sinking a Limestone Pit, 1798
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Mearheath colliery Received May 5th 1798 of the Marquis of Stafford by W. Heath Two pounds five shillings and fourpence for sinking a limestone pit ...
Thomas Heath's Accounts, 1783-1792
This document concerns payments made to various people in the Hanley, Cobridge, and Shelton area by Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803) Marquis of Stafford for roadways driven to get coal from Hanley ...
Thomas Heath's Accounts: Account of Coal got at Hanley Colliery
This document is dated January to June 1796, and concerns coal got at different mines at Hanley Colliery.
Seams were, Top coal, New Coal, Peacock, Spencroft, Great Row, Cannel Row, Rowhurst, Burnwood, ...