Sentence examples for In colliery from inspiring English sources

Although the pit has gone and there is not much interest in colliery bands any more, Calverton is not about to change its name.

Each year, a few thousand gather for the Durham Gala, a march whose origins are in colliery unions but, with that industry gone, now seems to commemorate past generations and the hard lives they lived.

In 1980, Hibbard and his fellow actors in a 7 84 production of One Big Blow, John Burrows's play about the daily hazards endured by miners and the escape they found by playing in colliery brass bands, mimicked the sounds of the instruments because they could not afford to hire musicians.

Hydraulic fracture geometry is of paramount importance to enhance fracture effect in colliery hard roof control.

This investigation was primarily aimed to examine the probable causes of in-service failure of head gear pulley used in colliery.

However, there are few literatures about mechanical site-measure to shotcrete layer in colliery roadway, but a few ones in highway tunnel, railway tunnel, side slope, hydraulic tunnel, dam foundation and underground engineering (Lai et al. 2005; Jia et al. 2006; Li et al. 2007).

By age 13, he was working in collieries in France, and he joined the French Communist Party in the early 1930's.

In 1803, a group of local men claimed that Brewham "by its striking similarity of soil, site and aspect with counties abounding in collieries" was a likely spot to dig for coal.

Appropriate gas drainage in collieries can guarantee safe production, and decrease the emission of greenhouse gas (Bibler et al. 1998; Karacan et al. 2011; Keim et al. 2011; Xia et al. 2014; Zhou et al. 2014).

As an associated product of coal production, gas is an innovative clean energy and high-class chemical material, although it may cause major life threatening disasters in collieries and increase the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere (Zhang et al. 2013; Xue et al. 2014).

By 1837, the Trustees employed around 3,000 people (including those working in the colliery and in Worsley Yard), making it one of the largest employers in the country at the time.