Sentence examples for colliery worker from inspiring English sources

Times change and it is a long time since any colliery worker played for Leigh Miners.

Among the 30-strong band, which began in 1917, there is only one former colliery worker.

He was the eldest of three sons of Jane (née Speight) and Thomas Wilfred Boycott, a colliery worker from Shropshire.

In Ashington, its rows of terraced houses built for colliery workers are a legacy of the days when it was an important mining community.

He posed women colliery workers in their coarse, heavily patched trousers, legs crossed sometimes, leaning on their man-size shovels, looking hard and bemused at the photographer, one or two finding enough vanity for a smile.

Songs helped shape popular moods: Richard Thompson's Blackleg Miner highlighted the plight of colliery workers, while Song of the Lower Classes by the chartist poet MP Ernest Jones drew on rousing works such as Shelley's Mask of Anarchy.

If anything, Hall's play about the Ashington Colliery workers who picked up their paintbrushes at a WEA class and began to paint what they saw around them feels more urgent now than it did four years ago, charting as it does not just the collapse of working-class politics but also looking forward to the collapse in access to the arts.

And fans from Nottingham can expect abuse whenever they travel to Yorkshire, a hangover from the miners' strike of the 1980s when colliery workers from Nottingham were among the first to cross the picket lines and accept the government's redundancy.

After a two-year stint in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Charlton returned to Lambton and rejoined the local colliery workers' union, becoming its treasurer in 1901.

Doves use their visual backdrops as carefully as they employ their orchestral arrangements - the clean, pastoral sound of Friday's Dust contrasting with glimpses of collieries and blackened pit workers.

Although the town is no longer home to the colliery's workers, efforts have been made to keep the spirit of generational mining alive at the pit with a recent scheme which has seen the sons of current miners being given jobs.