Adrian,
> can you tell me if there was ever a colliery called
Thursfield
>near Tunstall about the turn of the century, if so where exactly was
it,
> Regards Nigel
Can you tell us which Tunstall you are talking about? Presuming the
Stoke-on-Trent one, it doesn't appear in the 1896 list, it doesn't
appear in the Geological Memoir for S-o-T, it doesn't appear in my
database of colliery accidents and I have no other record of it.
Otherwise presuming the Tunstall near Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, it
doesn't appear in the 1896 list nor in any of my records.
Sorry for the negativity!
We are talking about Tunstall Stoke-on-Trent.
The colliery was sited at Newchapel, close to Kidsgrove in the Borough
of Stoke-on-Trent. The whole site was opencast in the 1980s. Shafts
which were left were filled in the mid 90s due to housing development.
Famous for galena specimens which were found in the coal measures. See
Ward: History of the Borough of Stoke-on-Trent
I have other info. if you need it.
Alan Scragg
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