28. Slade House Colliery Road


 

     Slade House (now Slade House Farm) is a nicely proportioned double-fronted
     house in red brick with sash windows and the good looks of a late Victorian villa.
     The old Brereton Colliery (once called Brick Kiln Colliery) stood opposite, until its
     closure in 1960, and for many years the house was the home of various colliery
     officials.
 

29. Broadslade (Cottage at 'Old Engine Corner)


      This cottage is a lone survivor of several cottages that were once
      widely scattered around the old collieries. It is two-storey, built of
      red brick and has a clay-tiled roof. The corner`s name comes from
      the 'Old Engine Pit', which produced coal nearby for over a century,
      and later pumped water until the early 1950s. The cottage may be
      old as maps of 1795 and 1804 show a building on the same site in
      3 acres owned by Moses Benton. For many years it was occupied
      by colliery banksmen.

30. Ordnance Survey Triangulation Pillar at 'Brereton Spurs’


    This is a chest-height, white-painted substantial concrete pillar tapering from base to top,
    with a metal top-plate, which used to be used as a platform for surveying instruments. At
    207 metres (679 feet) above sea level and 142 metres (466 feet) above the River Trent it
    is the highest point in the Parish - near the viewpoint carpark off Stile Cop Road where
    commanding views over the Trent Valley and into Derbyshire are possible, including the
    spires of Lichfield Cathedral. Modern surveying methods have generally made these 1930s
    pillars redundant and Ordnance Survey have suggested that local bodies may wish to
    maintain them.

31. Commemorative Plaque

      A plaque affixed to a large quarried stone (some 4 feet in width and height)
      commemorates the planting of 500 trees (mixed species) to the south-east
      of 'Old Engine Corner'. Standard Continuous PLC placed it on behalf of their
      customers for their care for the environment by the use of recycled paper.
      It is dated 14 November 1985.

32. Former Pay Office of Brereton Colliery, near the Holly Bush

     This is the only visible remaining building of the former Brereton Colliery,
     which closed in 1960, the Parish's last colliery other than Lea Hall. An
     unusual mid-20th-century single-storey brick building with pay-hatches
     along back and front sides (roadside ones now bricked up) with roof
     overhangs on concrete supports to give shelter over hatches. Sadly it
     is in a poor condition.