colliery
Americannoun
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collieries
plural
noun
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Origin of colliery
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Pantglas Junior School and a number of nearby houses in the village near Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, were catastrophically engulfed in coal slurry after the colliery spoil tip collapsed on 21 October 1966.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed when the colliery spoil tip collapsed and engulfed a primary school and surrounding houses.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
For Jeff Edwards, the last child to be pulled alive from his classroom when a colliery spoil tip struck a primary school in Aberfan, the physical injuries healed but the psychological scars never did.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
But he watched in disbelief as tonnes of colliery waste poured down the hillside and buried part of the junior school.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Smoky fields, fenced by old colliery ropes, a black canal, and coalpit winding towers.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
China approved the expansion of hundreds of collieries last year, involving an annual capacity increase of about 420 million tonnes.
From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2022
One of the other miners working with Jake, Garry Jenkins, grew up near the mine and had worked in other small collieries around the area.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2021
Labour MP Mr Lavery, who worked at Lynemouth and Ellington collieries in the North East, said: "This was not a gaffe and I don't think he should apologise and add insult to injury."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2021
In 1984, when there were 170 working collieries in Britain, employing more than 190,000 people but by 2015, they had all closed.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2021
One incident in their early childhood was the rioting that pervaded the collieries in the years immediately following the great French war.
From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Mrs. Alexander
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