Sentence examples for the collieries from inspiring English sources
noun
An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
His pictures, mainly oils and pastels, depicted views from the collieries and street scenes.
"The collieries are gone and people are moving out to work.
At that time the collieries were producing 187m tonnes from 958 deep mines and employed 718,000 workers.
Some of the collieries were stopped last week for the avowed purpose of compelling the general government to relieve the mining regions from the operations of the draft.
Thousands more came in buses that made on the long trip from the northern regions of Asturias and Leon or the collieries of eastern Aragon and southern Puertollano.
There is a slight increase in the number of strikers at Laeken, but the situation in the collieries of the Borinage is in no way modified.
The colliery closed in 1996.
"Dad worked in the colliery, he was always away.
Deaths and injuries in the colliery marked all village life.
The colliery is long gone now, just as Scargill told us it would be.
At the time of the strike the colliery employed 2730 people.
