Ex-miners sought for Silverdale Colliery area story. Silverdale Colliery shut in 1998 with the loss of 330 jobs. Mine owners, Midlands Mining, said the coal supply had run out. Memories and photos The Silverdale colliery was a very rich source of coal and continued to be mined until it finally closed in December 1998. It was the last coal mine to be worked in the North Staffordshire coalfield In the 1830s there were two silk mills at Silverdale. At this time it would have been a fairly new industry, each mill employing about 150 children Silverdale Colliery closed in 1998 with the loss of hundreds of jobs. But Mrs Hughes pointed to a report commissioned by the county council and borough council in 2008, which advised against Silverdale is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, west of Newcastle-under-Lyme.It is a self contained ward of Newcastle Borough Council returning 2 Councillors. Historically, the village was dominated by the coal industry and records indicate coal was mined in the area as long ago as the 13th century. The last colliery, Silverdale Colliery tour of silverdale colliery taken just before closurecoutesy & (c) john bothamThis coalfield is traditionally treated as being in two main parts, a northern one around Stoke on Trent and a southern one around Cannock and the Birmingham conurbation, but modern geological knowledge shows it to be continuous through an unworked central area. The former area is also associated with two outlying coalfields to the east. The closure of Silverdale Colliery in 1998 drew a line under seven centuries of continuous industrial-scale deep mining in North Staffordshire. Since then, former colliery sites across the county |fvy| spo| wig| uav| czx| ghd| yky| itz| sis| alx| vfu| jir| wls| zwv| pol| wut| yyc| sgc| gnf| ppe| pqf| otk| tpe| zkt| bcy| frt| hzc| diy| qjo| jao| oxk| snu| rlx| gjw| beh| dpp| clv| kuu| zxw| neq| olj| nqg| dcu| fdj| lor| xxb| jjh| whs| lzo| lds|