Sentence examples for working in the colliery from inspiring English sources

Many people try to pin down the bond between people working in the colliery - whether it was working in close proximity, having each other's backs, being in high risk work.

By 1837, the Trustees employed around 3,000 people (including those working in the colliery and in Worsley Yard), making it one of the largest employers in the country at the time.

"Dad worked in the colliery, he was always away.

"I think that Pride has opened the significance of this story for the young generation in Wales and further afield – many of whom wouldn't remember the strike but would now be thinking: "Well my grandfather used to work in the collieries... and what was that all about?" said Dai Donovan, Welsh miner turned trade unionist.

In 1821 George Stephenson, who had built several steam engines to work in the Killingworth colliery, heard of Edward Pease's intention of building an 8-mile (12.9-kilometre) line from Stockton on the coast to Darlington to exploit a rich vein of coal.

Hulatt worked in the local colliery near Tibshelf, and had a rat-catching business on the side.

The site was once the Valley Colliery, a training pit for those working in the coal industry.

The 1984-5 strike, called in an attempt to halt pit closures and the rundown of the industry at a time when there were more than 180,000 miners working in 170 collieries, was the most important industrial dispute in Britain since the General Strike of 1926.

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.

By age 13, he was working in collieries in France, and he joined the French Communist Party in the early 1930's.

Generations of miners who worked in the difficult conditions of the local collieries are remembered at the Radstock Museum.