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	Cwmtillery Colliery
		In 1852 the colliery was taken over by a Risca coal master, John Russell, and by 1853 he was shipping 350 tons of coal from the valley every month.
		After the closure of the Pen-y-Bont and Gray collieries and with the removal of the rail line in the valley, the fate of Cwmtillery seemed to be written.
		The most important thing in the closure of the colliery is the loss to the community of the friendship it created over the years.
	www.cwmtillery.com /industry.htm (2054 words)

	The Tunnel Ridge Colliery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The colliery was opened by a water level tunnel driven 430 ft. south to the north dip skidmore vein by George W. Cole in 1862.
		George Cole operated the colliery until 1879 when it was purchased by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. who sunk a tender slope in 1889 and 1891 drove an airway 270 ft. on the holmes vein to an air shaft sunk 45 ft. deep on which a large fan was erected.
		In 1897, the Elmwood Colliery slopes were extended to the same level as the tunnel ridge levels and a tunnel was driven 333 ft. across the basin from the elmwood south dip mammoth vein gangway to the tunnel ridge north dip new slope east mammoth gangway.
	www.readinganthracite.com /articles/tun.html (420 words)

	WCBC: Bersham Colliery Mining Museum
		Bersham Colliery began in 1868 with the sinking of the first shaft on what was then an old brickyard.
		The headgear was brought to Bersham Colliery for the No.2 Shaft in 1930 after a fire destroyed the former timber-built structure.
		Bersham Colliery overcame many problems: some of the coal seams were less than 2 foot high, the mine was wet, the Wrexham - Staffordshire fault made life difficult and there was always a problem in getting the coal up from the face to the surface quick enough.
	www.wrexham.gov.uk /english/heritage/bersham_colliery.htm (626 words)

	Colliery
		Shireoaks Colliery Co. obtained the lease to sink Whitwell Colliery on Belph Moor in February, 1890 and His Grace, the sixth Duke of Portland lifted the first sod on Saturday, 24th May 1890.
		Richard Enos Jones, the first colliery manager, was in charge of the enterprise, although the first person to be engaged, as General Foreman and Timekeeper, was Mr.
		In 1911, the colliery produced two large lumps of coal for exhibition at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary.
	www.wlhg.freeuk.com /book/part10.htm (3394 words)

	Elrington Colliery
		The Greta Seam at this colliery lays on the southern slope of the Lochinvar anticline.
		Elrington Colliery ceased mining operations in December 1962, and in April 1963 a decision was made because of maintenance costs to close the Elrington rail branch.
		Elrington Colliery was also one of the first collieries to use battery operated shuttle cars to transport coal from the face to the main haulage.
	amol.org.au /newcastle/greta/elr.html (6267 words)

	SILVERWOOD COLLIERY
		Silverwood Colliery was situated between the Villages of Thrybergh and Ravenfield.
		Towards the end of the last century, when coal-mining was already a long-established industry in Yorkshire, the shallow seams in the western sector of the county-the easiest for the early miners to work by their primitive methods-showed signs of becoming exhausted.
		The colliery finally closed in 1994 and had survived 94 years and had been a large employer of local labour.
	www.lindleyancestry.co.uk /silverwood_colliery.htm (789 words)

	IFTON COLLIERY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although the colliery is generally called Ifton nowadays, it was originally known as the Gertrude Mine, named after a female member of the Craig family who founded it.
		As the colliery began to expand, the National Coal Board built a number of new houses to accommodate the influx of workers from other areas, whom we in the village regarded as foreigners.
		Black Park Colliery was at least 117 years old (as shown on old mine plans) and was close to the western outcrops of the coal seams.
	shropshiremines.org.uk /bmd/ifton.htm (7834 words)

	I.A.Recordings: Industrial Site - Donisthorpe Colliery
		Donisthorpe Colliery was near Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire in the English Midlands.
		I.A.Recordings visited the colliery on 12th April 1990, to make a record of the last steam winding engine still working in the Midlands, only to discover that the mine was Officially due to close at 12 noon, that day!
		The mine was first sunk in 1871 by the colliery owners Checkland and Williams to a depth of 205m (672 feet).
	www.iarecordings.org /donisthorpe.html (1502 words)

	Neath Colliery
		Neath Colliery in its early days of operation was considered to be a "naked light" pit, indicating that it was thought to be free of gas.
		Therefore it was necessary for the colliery's sidings layout to continue on a contour, that gave a minimal rise.
		Neath Colliery had stacked this reject material in dumps, that mountained into hills along the lower side of the arc of the Colliery's rail siding running road, stretching out adjacent to the screens and sidings.
	amol.org.au /newcastle/greta/neath.html (11583 words)

	Finely detailed handcrafted coal figures and coal ornaments made with coal www.collieryroad.com
		Our range includes steam trains, locomotives, cars, animals and mining figures.
		Copyright © 2001 - 2007 Colliery Road - Contact - sales@collieryroad.com
		Colliery Road - These intriguing made with coal figures are handcrafted using deep mined Scottish coal and individually hand finished by ex coal miners
	www.collieryroad.com (179 words)

	Colliery
		The techno-economic studies conducted have established the technical feasibility and economic viability for the opening of an open cast colliery with production capacity of 1.5 million metric tonnes per annum based on a detail geological study.
		To implement the Mchuchuma Colliery Project in the private sector it is proposed to create a private Coal Mine Subsidiary owned by NDC.
		The Colliery construction is expected to be implemented by an Engineer, Procure, Construction (EPC) Contractor.
	www.ndctz.com /colliery.htm (1139 words)

	3 days of colliery disasters leave 85 dead
		Seven people were killed in a colliery accident in Southwest China on Monday, bringing the death toll in coal mine tragedies to 85 over the past three days.
		In another tragedy, 32 miners were killed and 28 injured in a colliery gas explosion at Changyuan Coal Mine in Fuyuan, a county in southwestern Yunnan Province.
		A third gas blast on Sunday hit Luweitan Colliery in Linfen city, North China's Shanxi Province, killing all 24 miners underground, the local government said on Monday.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-11/27/content_744292.htm (344 words)

	East Midlands Oral History Archive: Adventurous Play In The Colliery
		I was involved with them in a lot of the childhood escapades especially around the colliery after it had closed, and it was nothing for us to go out day after day, roaming round as a small gang of children.
		We used to go out in the fields and we used to go round the colliery, climbing up the screens, and the only danger of course was the mine shafts, which were not particularly protected because they were just left as they finished the work.
		The one thing that always sticks in my memory was the old colliery spoil bank which they used to take all the coal that was of no use, dump it on the top and let it slide down.
	www.le.ac.uk /emoha/schools/toys/colliery.html (252 words)

	GENUKI:Colliery Schools in South Wales in the Nineteenth Century
		The real colliery school was the one promoted or established by the owner of a colliery, or, a colliery company.
		The colliery schools which existed before 1840 were wholly dependent on the benevolence of colliery proprietors coupled with the income derived from the poundage levy on the colliers' wages.
		The Courtybella Colliery School in the parish of Mynyddislwyn (Monmouthshire) was established by Sir Thomas Phillips in 1842, 2 and was the first of the works schools in Wales to be aided by a parliamentary grant.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/CollierySchls.html (8404 words)

	Abercarn Colliery
		This colliery is one of the numerous group which send their mineral treasures to Newport for shipment.
		The Abercarn and Gwythin collieries, which form pretty nearly one concern, are placed under the management of a gentleman who travelled into various parts of Europe and America, with a view of introducing all available colliery improvements which might suggest themselves to his mind.
		The collieries comprise pits of two kinds of coal; the bituminous coal for household purposes and for gas-making, and the strong, durable, anthracite coal for steam engines.
	www.welshcoalmines.co.uk /Gwent/Abercarn.htm (1349 words)

	Ushaw Moor Colliery
		Ushaw Moor colliery, in 1879, was bought by Henry Chaytor of Witton Castle and it was during his ownership that we find the most turbulent colliery strike in the Deerness Valley taking place.
		Henry Chaytor, the owner of the colliery, published a long letter in the Chronicle dated 28th December, 1881 stating that, in his opinion, the men were getting their money too easily and were almost taking over the colliery for themselves.
		Robert Curry the engineer directed the police and -a number of 'candy men' from the colliery to remove the furniture from houses in the middle rows of the colliery streets.
	www.btinternet.com /~paul.clough/ushawmoor/colliery.htm (1099 words)

	Industriedenkmal-Stiftung \| Industrial Monuments \| Sterkrade Colliery \| History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sterkrade colliery in Oberhausen was one of three coal mines put up by the Good Hope Mill in the 1890s.
		It was originally intended as a ventilation shaft for the Osterfeld colliery and as a second vehicular exit for the Hugo-Haniel colliery.
		The Lohberg and Osterfeld collieries were consolidated in 1989, and surface operations at the Sterkrade I/II pit ceased in the spring of 1994.
	www.industriedenkmal-stiftung.de /docs/5049587149261_en (186 words)

	Treeton Colliery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1862, the Fence Colliery Company was created, and in 1870 they bought the Orgreave Colliery, opened in 1851, from the Sorby family.
		In 1897, using a dynamo on the colliery premises, Treeton became the first village in the country to be lit by electricity.
		In the 1970s/80s the colliery was transformed from a shaft mine to a drift mine at a cost of £20 million.
	www.bryanspink.co.uk /familytree/html/treeton_colliery.html (270 words)

	History of Bersham Colliery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1933 the headgear on the main shaft caught fire and had to be replaced by the surviving metal one, which came from Gatewen Colliery.
		Miners from another local colliery were brought in to operate this and much resentment was caused with the existing workers.
		In 1961, in the Quaker Seam, mechanisation was brought in on a large scale and in 1963 it was used to drive two dipping tunnels from the existing pit bottom to the Ruabon Yard and Queen Seams.
	shropshiremines.org.uk /bmd/berhist.htm (1769 words)

	A MEMORY OF DENBY COLLIERY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of these was an uncle in the colliery business, who finished up as general manager of the then independent Denby Colliery, near Ripley.
		With my two cousins, a boy and a girl of about the same age, we naturally had more or less free run of the colliery and had many footplate trips on the locomotive which conveyed the coal traffic on the colliery‘s half-mile branch line down to the Derby - Ripley branch of the Midland Railway.
		The engine which normally worked the colliery branch was an 0−4−0 saddle tank built by the Yorkshire Engine Company in 1895, works No. 484 For some reason it was known by the delightful name of "Juddy Rust", although officially it was D I and C CO. LTD.
	www.irsociety.co.uk /Archives/11/denby_colliery.htm (400 words)

	More About Garnant Colliery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The colliery was known locally as Pwll Perkins after the Perkins family who once owned it.
		By the time of the 1884 disaster, the colliery was owned by the Garnant Colliery Company, who had their office at Cambrian Way, Swansea.
		The Cambrian Newspaper reported that at the time of the accident, the colliery was being worked by David Pugh, M.P. By 1908, the registered colliery owner was the Cawdor and Garnant Collieries Ltd., Garnant.
	homepages.tesco.net /~dave.michael/garnantcolliery.html (223 words)

	Local officials often behind colliery accidents
		Death toll in north China colliery gas blast rises to 41
		Death toll in north China colliery gas blast rises to 40
		Li, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, and Zhao, head of the State Coal Mine Security Supervision Bureau are dealing with the aftermath of five fatal coal mine accidents that have killed 88 people in the last week.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-11/28/content_745325.htm (644 words)

	Local Heritage Initiative - Gomersal Colliery Memorial Project
		The Project's aim is to investigate, celebrate and raise awareness of the mining heritage of the local area.
		Gomersal Colliery or Nutter Lane pit was a busy colliery employing 360 men in the 1960's and was closed in 1973.
		It is also planned for the ex-miners from the colliery to design an interpretative sculpture to mark the location of the colliery in Oakwell Hall Country Park.
	www.lhi.org.uk /projects_directory/projects_by_region/yorkshire_the_humber/bradford/gomersal_colliery_memorial_project (195 words)

	Durham Mining Museum - Colliery Maps (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this section we have a number of maps that show the collieries and pits in the region at various times.
		All of the maps are linked to the colliery detail pages so that when you are viewing the detail of a particular map you can click on the colliery to see the detailed information we have for that colliery.
		Please note that not all of the collieries and pits shown on the maps have active links - we are gradually adding these.
	www.dmm-gallery.org.uk /maps/index.htm (176 words)

	Point of Ayr Colliery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The coal seams were worked under the Dee estuary and, despite extensive reserves, it closed as a result of the reduced demand for coal due to the use of gas in electricity generation.
		The main colliery is on the left and the new drift mine on the right.
		The only passenger train known to have visited the colliery was a special train organised by the Institution of Mining Engineers (South Staffs and South Midlands Branch) on March 27th 1993.
	www.penmorfa.com /Archive/ten.HTM (549 words)

	About Treeton Colliery
		Sinking of the colliery shafts began in 1875, with a ceremony.
		The colliery was the main means of livelihood, indeed, coal mining was a valuable contribution to the nation.The number of inhabitants in Treeton rose from 383 to 900 in just under six years.
		The colliery houses on Wood Lane, known as The Big Six, were built for senior officials, and there were two detached houses built, one for the colliery manager and one for the engineer.
	www.treetonweb.co.uk /history/colliery.htm (1427 words)

	Polkemmet Colliery
		At one time it was one of central Scotland's most important and successful mines, and Polkemmet Colliery was one of the county's major employer when it closed but according to the NCB was losing money.
		It was originally intended to electrify the colliery by bringing in electrical power from the South of Scotland Electricity Board, but due to the urgency for coal production due to the war effort and the long time it would have taken to bring in power, the intention was never realised.
		The "Report of the Public Inquiry into the proposed closure of Polkemmet Colliery, August 1985" showed that in 1982/83, the latest year unaffected by major disputes, investment per man in the NCB (only those at collieries) as a whole was £3651 but in the Scottish area alone it was down to £2182.
	www.eh47.freeserve.co.uk /images/industry/polkemmetpit.htm (984 words)

	Durham Mining Museum - Washington Glebe Colliery
		Washington "Glebe" Colliery, usually known as the Glebe Pit, was established only four years ago, the shafts being sunk through the surface deposits by the freezing process, and is one of two collieries, the other and much older colliery being known as the F. Pit, owned by the Washington Coal Co., Ltd.
		There are two shafts at the Glebe Pit both sunk to the Low Main seam at a depth of 114 fathoms, passing through the Main Coal seam at 94 fathoms and the Maudlin seam at 104 fathoms.
		Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
	www.dmm.org.uk /colliery/w003.htm (1581 words)

	Elliot Colliery Winding House (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Elliot Colliery Winding House and its magnificent Victorian steam winding engine, once lay at the heart of a thriving colliery.
		Visit the Winding House and discover the story of Elliot Colliery, the local coal industry and experience the massive winding engine in action.
		Elliot Colliery Winding House is operated by CCBC Museums and Heritage Service.
	www.caerphilly.gov.uk /visiting/museums/elliotcolliery.htm (422 words)

	Wansbeck's Ashington Colliery Band
		In 1961, the mineworkers of Ashington Colliery asked the Band to represent their colliery and so the band returned to Ashington.
		Even though a Colliery band, a good relationship was established with the Local Authority who we represented on numerous occasions.
		The band played in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen Mother when she opened the Queen Elizabeth Park at Woodhorn in 1978 and then in the presence of her daughter, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, when they visited the Alcan Smelter on the celebration of its 21st anniversary.
	www.ashingtoncollieryband.org.uk /history.html (284 words)

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