Sentence examples for colliery town from inspiring English sources

Turner hails from Hucknall, the former colliery town where Lord Byron is buried.

You only have to visit an estate in a former colliery town to see the devastation that rapid economic change causes.

Shirebrook is actually a former colliery town in Derbyshire, but the Statham family moved to Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, when he was young and this is where Statham first met Jones, who introduced him to football.

This is pretty much the story of Easington, a colliery town and village with a combined population of 7,000, which has the highest obesity levels in Britain, the highest proportion of white people, and is the UK's fourth most deprived area.

Two were in the north-east: at the Sage, Gateshead and at the social welfare centre in Easington, the Durham colliery town at the centre of the strike, where Billy Elliot was filmed, and a focus of Bill Morrison's archive material.

John Vincent Hurt was born on 22 January, 1940 in the colliery town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the youngest of three boys.

Where to stay Former colliery towns such as Easington and Horden are not (yet) set up for tourism but overlooking the coast just outside the town of Seaham, is a five-star boutique hotel, Seaham Hall (doubles from £175 B&B,), where Lord Byron got married in 1815.

As a result, nearby ex-colliery towns and villages become over filled with a disproportionate number of young parents.

They were created with admirable foresight by the county council in the 1970s when former rail lines linking collieries, towns and stations during the industrial revolution were ripped up.

Come 1975, as Lynne tried out his newfound orchestral superpowers on early disco (Evil Woman), colliery hoedowns (Down Home Town) and Poker, in which – trollbait alert – ELO predicted UK punk, his primary strength was still in bombastic balladeering.

Looking out from a car as it bumped slowly towards the Zululand Anthracite Colliery (ZAC) near the town of Ulundi – about 25 miles (40km) from the Africa Centre – Dladla sighed.