colliery
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of colliery
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The pit, which opened in 1895, has been described as one of the best preserved Victorian-era colliery sites in Europe.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
The attraction has unveiled plans to install solar panels on the roofs of colliery buildings as well as housing a battery and electric vehicle charging.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
That would have been because everyone would have been gathered in the main hall and the colliery tip would have collapsed on top of them.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
Generally colliery tips were located on steep hillsides, whereas Ffos-y-Fran's overburden mounds sit "on ground with gentle gradients", with differences too in terms of how they were constructed and their drainage systems, they said.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
But his greatest childish feat took place on his discovering a fire-engine being erected at a colliery in the village to pump the water out of the mine.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser
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