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- Fence Colliery was a small colliery sunk at the lower end of the village of Fence, South Yorkshire, England alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road...2 KB (209 words) - 11:58, 8 July 2020
year the Fence Colliery Company was renamed Rother Vale Collieries Limited, owning Orgreave and Fence collieries, later sinking a new colliery at Treeton...10 KB (1,060 words) - 06:38, 12 July 2024- 20th century a new colliery at Thurcroft was developed. The Fence Colliery Company was formed in 1862 with the purchase of Fence Colliery, a small coal pit...3 KB (421 words) - 19:24, 8 July 2020
- fourteen moved to work at Fence Colliery near Sheffield. He later transferred to Beighton Colliery, then Norwood Colliery, just over the border in Derbyshire...3 KB (342 words) - 00:05, 11 September 2023
- Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery (simplified Chinese: 本溪湖煤矿; traditional Chinese: 本溪湖煤礦), located in Benxi, Liaoning, China, was first mined in 1905. Originally...5 KB (651 words) - 14:02, 18 June 2024
brick booking office at its centre. Nearby was Orgreave Coke Works and Fence Colliery. It closed in 1953. The station was located between that at Treeton...4 KB (268 words) - 14:45, 26 November 2022
Kellingley Colliery, known affectionately as the 'Big K', was a deep coal mine in North Yorkshire, England, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east of Ferrybridge power...13 KB (1,410 words) - 21:03, 28 April 2024
Huskar Pit (redirect from Huskar Colliery)notorious pit disaster in 4 July 1838. In 1838 Huskar was connected to Moorend Colliery, and used for ventilation. It had a vertical shaft to the surface and a...5 KB (552 words) - 14:38, 5 March 2024
and is a cognate of German Zaun (fence), Dutch tuin (garden) and Icelandic tún (paddock). The word means "fenced off estate" or more accurately "estate...21 KB (2,185 words) - 12:06, 7 July 2024- The Peckfield pit disaster was a mining accident at the Peckfield Colliery in Micklefield, West Yorkshire, England, which occurred on Thursday 30 April...15 KB (2,392 words) - 01:18, 2 December 2022
The Maltby Main Colliery was a coal mine located 7 miles (11 km) east of Rotherham on the eastern edge of Maltby, South Yorkshire, England. The mine was...8 KB (879 words) - 12:18, 4 July 2024
Hatfield Colliery, also known as Hatfield Main Colliery, was a colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield, mining the High Hazel coal seam. The colliery was...16 KB (1,502 words) - 23:17, 13 October 2023
Ellington Colliery (also known as The Big E), was a coal mine situated to the south of the village of Ellington in Northumberland, England. The colliery was...18 KB (1,720 words) - 15:01, 15 May 2024
Burnley Coalfield (redirect from Huncoat Colliery)in 1959. Fence No 2 53°49′26″N 2°16′41″W / 53.824°N 2.278°W / 53.824; -2.278 (Fence No 2) closed with Reedley in May 1960. Rowley Colliery 53°47′38″N...43 KB (5,838 words) - 22:23, 16 September 2023
Bentley Colliery was a coal mine in Bentley, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, that operated between 1906 and 1993. In common with many other...14 KB (1,469 words) - 17:49, 4 November 2023
53°42′54″N 1°30′18″W / 53.715°N 1.505°W / 53.715; -1.505 The Lofthouse Colliery disaster was a mining accident in Lofthouse, in the West Riding of Yorkshire...6 KB (664 words) - 10:30, 4 May 2024- Treeton Colliery was a coal mine situated in the village of Treeton, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Work on the sinking of Treeton Colliery commenced...2 KB (294 words) - 02:46, 15 December 2022
- 53°29′49″N 1°25′05″W / 53.497°N 1.418°W / 53.497; -1.418 The Elsecar Collieries were the coal mines sunk in and around Elsecar, a small village to the...5 KB (749 words) - 06:42, 7 July 2024
Oaks explosion (redirect from Oaks colliery)caused by firedamp ripped through the underground workings at the Oaks Colliery at Hoyle Mill near Stairfoot in Barnsley killing 361 miners and rescuers...31 KB (4,250 words) - 18:14, 21 September 2023
‘Helensburgh Glow Worm tunnel’. The Metropolitan tunnel connected the local colliery to Helensburgh station as a way to transport mining produce uphill where...15 KB (1,733 words) - 21:30, 10 July 2024
- TO CONFIDE IN. Certainly matters were in a serious state in the Mirkley Colliery district. The whole industrial world was unsettled at the time. There had
- to mar the countryside nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers through the green. Someone
- interior in modern style. The estate was rich in coal and Witton Park colliery was sunk in 1825. Brickstock, Richard. (2007) Castle: Fortress, Palace