How To Use Colliery In A Sentence
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The civic society is appealing for people connected with the colliery to come forward with recollections of life at the pit.
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The Church of Ireland congregation too had good reason to celebrate during 2004 with the Rededication of the Colliery Church after 175 years since it was first consecrated.
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Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style.
April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah
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The grandest, the undermanagers, overmen, engineers and surveyors lived nearest the colliery in streets with names: Thompson, Grant, West View.
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Robert was born when his father was still an obscure north-eastern colliery workman.
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Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.
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The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
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This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
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The paper analyzes colliery general goods and materials management information system, then puts forward its goal, at last divides and depicts system functional modules.
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The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school, in which children can try out the desks and writing slates and play games of the period.
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UK Coal admitted some equipment had been taken to some of its other pits but said the colliery would be sold to any prospective bidder.
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More than 200 miners returned to the coalface yesterday after a colliery's future was assured for the next 20 years.
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Sadness over mining deaths I FEEL so incredibly sad about the miners who died and were hurt at Wearmouth Colliery.
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My sincere greetings and respects to the people of Grimethorpe and to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
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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.
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Legislation to correct this was proposed, as well as regulations on rockbursts and rockfalls, respirable dust, noise, truck and tramming accidents, radiation and colliery explosions.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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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.
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There is enough money to keep the mineshafts open until next Tuesday, but after that the colliery will have to be ‘capped’ unless further funds can be found.
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At that time the mining workers' unions of the colliery supported the band financially, each miner paying a penny from his wages.
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He began his railway career as a porter at Clapham in the days when Ingleton Colliery was open and thousands of tons of coal passed through the station.
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No one wants a colliery on their doorstep or a coal mine under their home.
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Last week Government consultants working on its new energy policy visited Maltby Colliery to hear the miners' views on its future.
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Stainforth is just one of the communities that will be dealt a body blow if Hatfield colliery shuts.
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Scrap plea: Police have appealed to scrap dealers to look out for brass electrical equipment stolen from Wearmouth Colliery.
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I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.
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He was a pit deputy at Redbrook colliery on the outskirts of Barnsley, in a different union.
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Until the 1920s, an aerial ropeway took its output to the coke ovens at the Huncoat Colliery.
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We do have 40 acres of land containing overgrown colliery shale, fly tipping and flooded clay pits.
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At a gala event on Saturday he will stoke up the firebox and take it on its first run since it was pensioned off from a South Wales colliery in 1976.
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Back in 1831, Welsh coal miners at the tower colliery invented the red flag as a symbol of rebellion.
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It seemed that colliery bands were all but dead.
The Sun
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Isn't the back room of a colliery as holy a place to pray as a meetinghouse ?
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Miners are threatening an indefinite overtime ban at Kellingley Colliery, near Pontefract, in a dispute over new shift patterns.
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A short tram ride away is a north-eastern colliery village.
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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.
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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.
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He worked as a surfaceman at a colliery near Barnsley and supplemented his income by writing verse.
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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.
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A short tram ride away is a north-eastern colliery village.
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Scrap plea: Police have appealed to scrap dealers to look out for brass electrical equipment stolen from Wearmouth Colliery.
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Enjoy views of the North Sea from the hilltop in this former colliery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Small events had a big impact: a miner from Dennington colliery came to stay with me and my family while he was in London collecting money.
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The colliery band went after a few years and some of the sports teams folded.
The Sun
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Not that you would know from watching the colliery at work that it was condemned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The colliery is now producing 10,000 tonnes of coal a week, which is 2,000 more than before the mine went into receivership.
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He was posted to Littleton Colliery in the Cannock Chase coalfield in Staffordshire, and worked underground for three years and three months, latterly as a tadgerman drilling shotholes in the coalface a "tadger" is the large electric drill used.
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There are now more jobs above ground on the former colliery sites than there were below ground before the closures - more than 16,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain's largest coal operator has already shut the Prince of Wales Colliery at Pontefract, making hundreds of men redundant.
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Of these men we have examples in Brindley, who was at first a labourer and afterwards a millwright; Telford was a stone-mason; Rennie a farmer's son apprenticed to a millwright; and George Stephenson was a brakesman at a colliery.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
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Planning permission already exists for parts of the colliery where coal has been extracted, although these permissions are due to run out this year.
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The perspective of squat blue slate roofs and clustering chimneys drifted downward towards the irregular open space before the colliery — a space covered with coaly, wheel-scarred mud, with a patch of weedy dump to the left and the colliery gates to the right.
In the Days of the Comet
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East section is separated from other sections of the Colliery by a fault across which there are only two roads, one the intake and haulage road, and the other the return airway.
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He played in the colliery band.
Times, Sunday Times
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His father was a mining engineer and colliery manager whose love of singing gave music a central place in his son's life.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shaft is likely to be a remnant of the former colliery on the site.
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UK Coal has a large land bank from former colliery sites.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have a very varied collection, from North East Colliery locomotives to world famous Pacifics such as Sir Nigel Gresley and Blue Peter.
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This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
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They soon settled in Chell Heath and Matthew was employed at Chatterley Whitfield colliery as a face worker.
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Robert was born when his father was still an obscure north-eastern colliery workman.
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After the suspicious death of a miner at a disused colliery in Wales, the Doctor investigates the owner, Global Chemicals.
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Mr Richards had been a banksman at Cleworth Hall Colliery in Tyldesley and until he retired worked as a service man collecting coal samples from collieries throughout Lancashire.
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This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
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The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school.
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He learnt about explosives while working with a shotfirer in a colliery.
Times, Sunday Times
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I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.
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It was still dark when five coaches started to ferry the miners the 140 miles from the Silverhill colliery.
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The story of a colliery brass band might not sound like a fun watch.
The Sun
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Hwange Colliery has three operational mines namely JKL Opencast (widely known as the dragline pit), Chaba Opencast and 3 Main underground Mine.
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Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners.
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There is plenty to see above ground at Caphouse Colliery with retired pit ponies, machinery displays, a steam winder, pithead baths and a 17-acre rural site complete with nature trail and adventure playground plus picnic areas.
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A rare colliery badge on the lamp, or a non-standard design can boost the value.
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A rare colliery badge on the lamp, or a non-standard design can boost the value.
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Isn't the back room of a colliery as holy a place to pray as a meetinghouse ?
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Alongside the headgear at the pithead stood the colliery manager's house.
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At its peak in 1911, the colliery employed 2,700 mineworkers, though only 250 of these were indigenous to Warsop Vale.
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He noted that for several years he'd had to eat "sarnies" caked in coal dust, while totally alone each day at the middle bend of a pitch-black colliery tunnel his job had been to watch for derailments at the bend.
A charity dinner with Jimmy Savile
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On my mother's side, the majority of the family working in the industry were officials, on the management side - senior colliery overmen and jobs of that nature.
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Naturally, to such a boy, the great ambition of his life was to be released from the hoeing and spudding, and set to work at his father's colliery.
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