Sentence examples for the colliery from inspiring English sources

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.

It's going to be harder for them that's known nothing but the colliery".

He adds the decision to close the colliery was a very difficult one.

In the near distance they could hear the panting of some engine at the colliery.

"It is devastating," he says as the rain come down in the colliery carpark.

The management team was sent into the colliery yesterday to operate maintenance equipment.

But we couldn't be sacked because we didn't work for the colliery.