Grove Road, Great Fenton
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Grove Road, Heron Cross, Great Fenton

Coal mining nearby

As well as the nearby Fenton and Glebe Collieries there  were two pits that were accessed from Grove Road. These were the Stafford Colliery and between Stafford Colliery and Grove Road was Kimball Colliery.


The mines associated with Heron Cross and Grove Road


 

Stafford Colliery, Sideway - closed 1969
Stafford Colliery, Sideway  (1873 - 1969)

Stafford Colliery (now the site of Britannia Football Stadium) mined coal and iron ore from the Bowling Alley, Ten Feet, Winghay, Moss and Yard coal seams.


Kemball Colliery, Heron Cross (1876-1963)
Kemball Colliery, Heron Cross (1876-1963)

Kimball came under the control of Stafford Colliery. It was used as a training pit for new recruits in the 1940s. It proved very useful during World War 2 to train ‘Bevin Boys’. The shafts were known as Pender and Bourne, and for many years it served as the return airway for Hem Heath colliery, which had only one shaft until the 1950s.

Kemball was owned by the Stafford Coal and Iron Co. it mined coal and ironstone.

from:
Staffordshire Past Tracks
Stoke-on-Trent College mining history website

 


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