Colliery in a sentence

He started the work with several days of discussions with John Buddle, then overseer at Wallsend Colliery, other colliery owners and the Reverend John Hodgson, Vicar of Jarrow, both these men had experience of mining tragedies.

At the inquest into the deaths, there was evidence given that the colliery was in a very dangerous state, with the accident happening after a workman took the top off his lamp to light his pipe.

Birklands Primary School were able to explore the former colliery site as part of an “immersive” topic.

In a trading update for the year ended 31 December 2022, Hwange Colliery Company Limited administrator Mr Munashe Shava said they have also engaged new mining contractors to open three new opencast pits.

Many others also lament the loss of the close community Aylesham was when Snowdown Colliery was operational, and even in the initial years after it shut down in 1987.

Mr Knight grew up in Wallsend and remembered the booming mining industry that honeycombed the ground beneath the suburb from the Gretley Colliery to the surrounding suburbs.

Pictured are miners entering Silverdale Colliery at the height of its power.

The multimillion-pound surf park is proposed for former colliery Betteshanger Country Park, near offer waves all year round for users ranging from beginners to experts.

There is also the Zip World Tower at the former Tower Colliery coal mining site near Aberdare, South Wales.

William and Kate were led through the Aberfan Memorial Garden on Friday to pay their respects to those who died when a colliery spoil tip collapsed and sent tonnes of ash slurry onto the village below.

Another industrial town, not far from Dortmund, the public viewing area will be in Nordsternpark, a former colliery site that is now a park.

Boston Town registered a 4th league clean sheet in a row as they went toe to toe with top of the table Sherwood Colliery.

Charged with wounding with intent, in an incident in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, on Sunday August 4, she pleaded not guilty.

Delegates voted to end the strike, and on 5 March 1985 the miners marched back to work, most famously at Mardy colliery in Rhondda, south Wales.

He left Georgetown Secondary School at 14 and, after a brief stint as an apprentice motor mechanic, he followed his father Ben down the pits, firstly at nearby Ty Trist and later at the Pochin Colliery.

It would also serve as a reminder of the Gresford Colliery Disaster which led to the death of 266 men in 1934.

Major pollutants identified were large quantities of coal washings from Acomb Colliery and sluicings from Fallowfield Lead Mine.

Miners from the colliery at Crown Farm near Mansfield on their way home from work on 1st August 1926.

Peterlee Magistrates Court heard that Adil, 53, had been legally required to obtain a selective licence for his six properties in Blackhall Colliery, after the scheme came into effect in April 2022.

Plans to build a solar farm and battery energy storage on a former colliery in have been resubmitted.