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Examples of colliery
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Turner hails from Hucknall, the former colliery town where Lord Byron is buried.
From the independent.co.uk
In 1928 production started at the last town colliery to be opened, Vane Tempest.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Japanese forced the Chinese to work the colliery under very poor conditions.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The name is also given to a bridge over the Hindsford Brook and a former colliery.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Miners were striking in their tens of thousands against planned colliery closures.
From the guardian.co.uk
This led the Ashington Coal Company to build parallel rows of colliery houses.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Catch some colliery band music at its best at Billingham's Forum Theatre on Sunday.
From the gazettelive.co.uk
A colliery magnate from the north-east, JG Murray, bought the house and its estate.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The men went on strike and soon surrounding colliery workers began showing support.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
- The goal of coal mining is to remove coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s is widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. ...
- An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings; A facility that supplies coal
- A whole coal mining plant, generally used in connection with anthracite mining but sometimes used to designate the mine, shops, and preparation plant of a bituminous operation.
- (usually pronounced "call-ree", but proper pronunciation is "call-yer-ee") a coal mine and its collected buildings.
- A coalmine and its associated building.
