Thanks to a roaming posse of brass players, new song Kevin floats on a colliery-band swell at odds with its caustic tale of a young man lost to prescription drugs.
The Tennant Canal was a development of the Glan-y-wern Canal, which was built across Crymlyn Bog to transport coal from a colliery on its northern edge to a creek on the River Neath called Red Jacket Pill.
A colliery wheel at the top of the crest commemorates County Durham's mining history, and the land the Stadium of Light was built on, formerly the Monkwearmouth Colliery.
The power station's coal sorting area is used to represent a colliery.
The Jeddo Tunnel, which drained a colliery in the 20th century, emptied into Nescopeck Creek.
Sixty thousand new trees were planted on the site, a former colliery, as part of a 10-year construction programme which already includes several gardens, exhibition and performance spaces and an organic restaurant.
For detecting these interactions, a study was set up on virgin colliery mine spoil using a seed mixture of 49 ruderal species based on phytosociological considerations.
In 1813 George Stephenson visited a neighbouring colliery to examine a "steam boiler on wheels" constructed by John Blenkinsop to haul coal out of the mines.
Fashion in the 1940s is remembered in a new exhibition at Snibston (01530 278444; snibston.com), a museum and historic railway set in a country park on the site of a former colliery at Coalville.
At Daw Mill Colliery, on a hazy autumn afternoon, the air is full of noise and movement.
The cast, led by actress and writer Maxine Peake, joined the women on a tour of Kellingley Colliery in West Yorkshire.
