Examples of colliery

• His father was a very humble workman, who filled the position of fireman of the pumping-engine in use at the colliery, at three dollars a week. 

• Lord Ashley's Bill was passed, prohibiting woman and child labour in mines and collieries. 

• The colliery may close, but still the corn ripens, and extra wages are paid to the harvest men. 

• The work put into the cellars of the colliery houses here was quite extraordinary. 

• Two collieries, among the fields, waved their small white plumes of steam. 

• The men's rapid deterioration was attracting widespread concern in much the same way colliery explosions had in the first half of the nineteenth century.

• The loss of mine, machinery, and manpower in colliery explosions released a 'runaway train ' of social progress.

• And once opened, an average colliery had to employ between two hundred and five hundred men and boys.