colliery
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The reservoir is a flooded 19th Century colliery that was repurposed to supply water to Port Talbot Docks, and is now famous for its striking turquoise colour.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Louisa died during the struggles at the colliery and their youngest son, Frank, was adopted by a nearby family.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
They would have been told by the head, Miss Jennings, not to go near the railway line, to be careful of the river and not to go near the colliery.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
An open-air museum in County Durham that features faithful recreations of old homes, shops, farms and a colliery has won the annual award for the UK's museum of the year.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
But Llanyglo was not destined to be a colliery village.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
Thousands of men in Goldthorpe and neighbouring village Thurnscoe worked at four local collieries when miners across Britain went on strike in 1984 to fight the National Coal Board's plans to shut pits.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024
By looking at people on the picket lines, miners in the collieries and the police officers facing both sides, Graham says the drama aims to re-examine the seismic struggle from all angles.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2022
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
The epidemic even affected the mining industry, as “the collieries in Minersville and Schuylkill Valley were working shorthanded because of the number of sick men,” according to the newspaper.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2015
The income from his collieries and factories was so large, that even bricks and mortar could not altogether absorb it.
From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard
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