Definitionn. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Last update: July 30, 2015
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Working in a colliery is risky. [Please select]
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After the year 1884 Labour troubles became very frequent, the New South Wales coal miners in particular being at war with the colliery owners during the greater part of the six years intervening between then and what is called the Great Strike. [Please select]
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In 1814 he made a locomotive for the Killingworth Colliery Railway. [Please select]
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"A colliery," remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye. [Please select]
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Thomas Phillips to put up a steam engine at the Union Colliery, in Oaken Hill Enclosure. [Please select]
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In March, 1825, the well-known and prosperous Nelson Colliery was commenced by Messrs. [Please select]
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Its present length, extending from Bullo Pill to the Churchway Colliery, is nearly seven miles. [Please select]
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All the floating coffins should have come together, like a funeral of fifty from a colliery; but instead of that they dribbled in one by one, and were cast off by their tow-boats promiscuously. [Please select]
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