Sentence examples for in a colliery from inspiring English sources

Formal schooling ended when he got his first job aged seven as a messenger boy, but he attended night school while working in a colliery and learned public speaking as an lay preacher.

It grew out of the former Coalfield Communities Campaign, formed to highlight the plight of pit communities in a colliery closure programme in which over 200,000 jobs disappeared through the 1980s, 1990s and beyond, leaving Britain a heavy importer of coal.

Seeking to play down her Mormon religion, Romney has instead flagged up her Welsh heritage in recent months, frequently drawing attention to the real-life, rags-to-riches story of her grandfather David Davies, a miner who emigrated from Nantyffyllon in Bridgend to America in the 1929 after losing a kidney in a colliery accident.

Even when ideas are involved, as in the "bad geology" identified in the closure of a colliery, there is a sense of a let-down from some idealised form, such as might exist in a place where "good geology" has edges and a shape.

Where 20 years ago the discussion was of keeping the red flag flying high, it will now concern whether to go for red or black as croupiers will spin roulette wheels and hand out cards in the imposing block on Holly Street, which was designed in the shape of a colliery faceworker's pick.

The Jeddo Tunnel, which drained a colliery in the 20th century, emptied into Nescopeck Creek.

The Londonderrys were immensely rich, owning more than 50,000 acres, a colliery empire in the north-east of England, Mount Stewart in County Down and four other country houses, and Londonderry House on London's Park Lane.

Nearly 300 years ago, since the first record of a colliery explosion in Belgium significant improvements have been achieved in the prevention of explosions in mines.

In 1776 two engines were installed one for pumping water in a Staffordshire colliery, the other for blowing air into the furnaces of British industrialist John Wilkinson, the famous ironmaster.

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

Suspicious, he says, of anyone who flaunts their roots, he is happy nevertheless to stress that he is impeccably working class, born the son of an electrician who worked in a Nottinghamshire colliery.