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A lantern slide with a view of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, by local photographer William Blake between about 1920 and 1940. It appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled Staffordshire Pottery, in which Blake highlighted the importance of the north Staffordshire coalfield to its famous pottery industry. A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this slide reads: "A Modern Pit Head. Showing a three decker cage at the surface." The photographer also noted that "coal enters into the making of pottery as much as clay, and the vast quantity used has already been pointed out."None the less, Chatterley Whitfield is justly famous in its own right and secured its own reputation as the first colliery in Europe to produce a million tons of coal a year. Stoke-on- Trent Museums Services Your Comments (0)
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