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Sentence Examples He was a pit deputy at Redbrook colliery on the outskirts of Barnsley, in a different union. Back in 1831, Welsh coal miners at the tower colliery invented the red flag as a symbol of rebellion. He worked as a surfaceman at a colliery near Barnsley and supplemented his income by writing verse. Robert was born when his father was still an obscure north-eastern colliery workman. The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school. A rare colliery badge on the lamp, or a non-standard design can boost the value. They soon settled in Chell Heath and Matthew was employed at Chatterley Whitfield colliery as a face worker. We do have 40 acres of land containing overgrown colliery shale, fly tipping and flooded clay pits. The civic society is appealing for people connected with the colliery to come forward with recollections of life at the pit. A third of the work force, 163 men, have also been told they could face the chop at the colliery in Rotherham. Stainforth is just one of the communities that will be dealt a body blow if Hatfield colliery shuts. After the suspicious death of a miner at a disused colliery in Wales, the Doctor investigates the owner, Global Chemicals. Last month the Doncaster-based firm said up to 40 miners at the colliery would have to lose their jobs in order for the pit to stay afloat. At its peak in 1911, the colliery employed 2,700 mineworkers, though only 250 of these were indigenous to Warsop Vale. At that time the mining workers' unions of the colliery supported the band financially, each miner paying a penny from his wages. There were designs for safety lamps and a weighing machine, plans for colliery ventilation, for lighthouses and double-hulled ships. These units burn coal from a nearby colliery and, under certain conditions, could also burn brown coal. After training as an electrical engineer, he joined the National Coal Board as a shift charge engineer at Ellington colliery. The two newer units are fully employed in burning lignite from the nearby colliery. In the case of Preussag Anthrazit GmbH, the aid was paid to the Ibbenbüren colliery. Show More Sentences No one wants a colliery on their doorstep or a coal mine under their home. Even the most problematic gases such as colliery gas, landfill gas and sewage gas can be used without difficulty. This will include the raising of the European flag and a short musical performance by a colliery band from the Saar. Nearby, rusting away on the colliery surface, is some of the world's most modern mining hardware that has been salvaged from coalfaces and tunnels half-a-mile underground. Mr. Millan will also visit former colliery sites in the area which have been developed to provide premises for small businesses. The local press ignored them, probably because there was no colliery in the community and there was therefore no local story of strike-breakers crossing picket lines. Alongside the headgear at the pithead stood the colliery manager's house. The shaft is likely to be a remnant of the former colliery on the site. Planning permission already exists for parts of the colliery where coal has been extracted, although these permissions are due to run out this year. Benxihu, China To date, the Benxihu colliery was the site of the most lethal mining accidents on record. After four days of rescue efforts, mine officials decided to seal off the colliery and end the search for lives and bodies. Officials from the Department of Trade and Industry are visiting the colliery to talk to union leaders and to see for themselves the coal reserves still in the mine. This in turn forced the colliery owners in Southern Yorkshire to improve their access to the sea. The colliery closure that started the strike was at Cortonwood in South Yorkshire. The strike's aim to preserve miners' jobs was not met as colliery closures continued. The town's largest coal mine, Bank Hall colliery, closed in April 1971 resulting in the loss of 571 jobs. The three-kilometre Miners' Trail runs through Jubilee Woods, a former colliery and slag heap, making use of its slopes, humps and bumps. Bevin Boy trainees at a North-east colliery harnessing a pit pony during the war. In 1883 some 68 men and boys were killed and 53 were injured at Moorfield colliery near Accrington. However, efficiency did not matter very much within the context of a colliery, where coal was freely available. Show More Sentences Of those identified, most were built for use at Killingworth or for the Hetton colliery railway. At the mouth of the estuary is the natural gas sweetening plant at Point of Ayr on the site of the former colliery. Amid the rusting pithead gear, Jim Cornwall, who worked at the colliery, like his father and grandfather before him, until it closed in 1981, recalls stories about the old times. In addition to the underground tour there are exhibitions in the pithead baths and colliery buildings open to the public for the first time this year. When there was a severe loss of life and tragedy at the Devco mine, No. 26 colliery, CBC was at the pithead, talking to the families and community leaders. Roughly speaking, the capacity of that colliery satisfies those two units. Between the wars, the Guards found the county a fruitful recruitment area, as young men trod the well-worn path from colliery, via five years with the colours, to constabulary. The colliery is long gone now, just as Scargill told us it would be. Two striking miners were last night charged with the murder of a taxi driver who was taking a miner to work at Merthyr Vale colliery in Mid-Glamorgan. He belonged to a mining family, to the savage extent that he worked, and his father broke his back in, the same colliery in which his older brother, Wilfred, was killed. Now converted into a museum, this old colliery was the site where 262 miners, of whom 136 were Italian, met their deaths in 1956, at a time when the foundations of our joint project were being laid. The Phalen colliery near Waterford in Nova Scotia, the largest coal mine in the province, closed in December due to irreversible damages caused by underground roof caving. Herbert Lake is pictured here as he guides the last piece, which was to be used for colliery arch fishplate sections. George was to later say that Snibston colliery was his most profitable enterprise. Trevithick visited the Newcastle area in 1804 and had a ready audience of colliery owners and engineers. The last colliery to work the Ruabon coalfield was Bersham, which at once stage connected with Hafod Colliery underground. The Bute Merthyr began producing coal in 1855, the first working steam coal colliery in the Rhondda. The most notorious form of colliery disaster was the gas explosion, caused by either a buildup of methane gas or coal dust. Many more clubs, built around colliery and pub teams, appeared and disbanded but many of the clubs survive to this day. As the temperance movement faded the bands found new benefactors in the colliery owners, and many bands took on the names of specific collieries. Show More Sentences The colliery lasted until 1973 when it was closed due to geological problems. After school he worked at a local colliery before his first foray into acting came in 1940 when he performed on stage with the Pilgrim Players. Rumour has it that one remaining locomotive was preserved for some years at the colliery, but was eventually scrapped. George Stephenson came from a mining family and by 1804 had secured the post of brakesman at Killingworth colliery. Joseph's father had been a manager at Wallbottle colliery on Tyneside when George Stephenson was a fireman there. In the 1966 Aberfan disaster in Wales, a colliery spoil tip collapsed, engulfing a school and killing 116 children and 28 adults. This colliery was developed in 1805, and its miners bought it out at the end of the 20th century, to prevent it from being closed. The first two shafts were joined underground, but the last one was a separate colliery. The Prince of Wales colliery in Abercarn exploded in 1878 causing 268 deaths. In 1962 16 men died and 21 were injured at Hapton Valley colliery near Burnley. Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006 included a demo version of the route, featuring the mainline from Ais Gills summit to a fictional colliery town called Wharton. Yorkshire iron was used for shackles, hooks and piston rods for locomotives, colliery cages and other mining appliances where toughness was required. Foreseeing the growth in demand for coal as a source of motive and steam power, they acquired colliery rights for Oldham, which by 1771 had 14 colliers. The colliery owners fended off the formation of unions until well into the 19th century and trade unionism was slow to take a hold on the coalfield. The problem was investigated by Michael Faraday and Charles Lyell at the colliery at Haswell County Durham of 1844, but their conclusions were ignored at the time. As well as energy supply, coal became a very political issue, due to conditions under which colliers worked and the way they were treated by colliery owners. Christopher Blackett, proprietor of the Wylam colliery near Newcastle, heard of the success in Wales and wrote to Trevithick asking for locomotive designs. The committee decided in 1828 to replace horses with locomotives on the main line, starting with the coal trains, but there was resistance from some colliery owners. Volunteer stretcher-bearers, some of whom had been in other parts of the colliery when the explosion occurred, brought the bodies one and a half miles to the pit bottom. History is also brought to life at the UNESCO World Heritage Zeche Zollverein Coal Mine, at Essen, that was once renowned as the most beautiful colliery in the world. Show More Sentences He advocated a national network of railways, based upon what he had seen of the development of colliery lines and locomotive technology in the north of England. In 1846, together with Charles Lyell, he produced a lengthy and detailed report on a serious explosion in the colliery at Haswell County Durham, which killed 95 miners. Examples from Classical Literature Her husband, she said, was not in the p. 130house at present, but she would send for him to the colliery. The coal had to be hauled from the pit of the colliery to the shipping place. A colliery was opened at Denhall in Wirral, where coal is worked to this day. George Stephenson, the inventor of the locomotive, began life as a trapper on a tyneside colliery. The mopani colliery, which dates back to 1860, is worked by a joint-stock company. But he would not be put down by the bully of the colliery, and he fought him. In the Dhori colliery near India's coal capital, 375 miners were killed in a firedamp and coal dust explosion. He was away, it was believed in Durham, working at some colliery engine. They were compelled to go to him by the rules of the colliery. A few empty motor-cars of the colliery directors stood about. George Stephenson was at this time the engine-wright of the colliery. I WONDER if your readers can help me with my hobby, which is collecting brass-embossed colliery lamp checks or tokens and tallies as they are sometimes called. Find more words! 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