Sneyd Collieries Ltd.

The twentieth-century form of the Sneyd company at Burslem, owner of the colliery at the time of the 1942 explosion, with an output of 450,000 tons a year and some 2,300 employees between the wars; it gave £5,000 to the disaster relief fund and paid the victims' funeral expenses.

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Sneyd Colliery Staffordshire ?–1947

Record created: 9 September 2026 · Last researched: 9 September 2026

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