Sentence examples for colliery site from inspiring English sources

Jamie McGourlay, who works at the AMRC as a representative of Rolls-Royce, one of the companies that funds the centre, points out the expanse of a colliery site that once stretched "as far as the eye can see".

Another fire has been burning underground at the Daw Mill Colliery site, the Coal Authority has said.

Bersham Colliery site was originally a brickworks and some of the hand-made bricks were used to line the mine shafts.

A business park at a former colliery site in Derbyshire will be marked by a huge horse made of heather, the site developer said.

Driver training should start in June, and passengers trains are scheduled to be running back and forth through the old Monktonhall colliery site by next September.

Doncaster Council said the scheme would help to regenerate the village of Rossington, cut journey times, ease congestion, support further growth at the airport and provide the necessary road infrastructure for major projects including the redevelopment of the former Rossington Colliery site.

The three disused colliery sites have been developed for light industry, a depot and a superstore.

"Our banner represents the Durham miners' long struggle for the rights of the working class, rights which were annihilated by fascism in Germany, Italy, Spain and Chile," said Dave Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners' Association, who worked for 27 years as a miner at Wearmouth Colliery, the site on which the Stadium of Light stands.

The colliery was the site of two mining disasters which cost over one hundred lives, to which Sir Humphrey Davey and George Stephenson developed their safety lamps (There is a monument to the workers lost in St Mary's churchyard, Heworth).

This paper proposes a new approach to the restoration of contaminated land, particularly former colliery and demolition sites.

A colliery wharf was sited just west of the lock, but the nearby coal mines closed in the 19th century.