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structures are a colliery, a coal mine is called a "pit", and above-ground mining structures are referred to as a "pit head". In Australia, "colliery" generally...

Nook Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...

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...

Easington Colliery is a village in County Durham, England, known for a history of coal mining. It is situated to the north of Horden, a short distance...

Albion Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales Valleys, located in the village of Cilfynydd, one mile north of Pontypridd. The Colliery was located along...

Bararee Colliery is one of the underground mines of Lodna area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited subsidiary of Coal India Limited. The present day Bararee...

Outwood Colliery was a coal mine in Outwood, near Stoneclough in the historic county of Lancashire, England. Originally named Clough Side Colliery, it opened...

Chanters Colliery was a coal mine which was part of the Fletcher, Burrows and Company's collieries at Hindsford in Atherton, Greater Manchester, then...

Agecroft Colliery was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield that opened in 1844 in the Agecroft district of Pendlebury, Lancashire, England. It exploited...

The Granville Colliery was a coal mine in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England. It has its origins in a nearby mine established in 1780, but mining began on...

Pendlebury Colliery, usually called Wheatsheaf Colliery after the adjacent public house, was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1846...

St George's Colliery, Back o't' Church, was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the...

Blackhall Colliery is a village on the North Sea coast of County Durham, in England. It is situated on the A1086 between Horden and Hartlepool. To the...

A colliery viewer or coal viewer was the manager of a coal mine or colliery. The term was mostly used in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries....

Coventry Colliery was a coal mine located in the village of Keresley End in northern Warwickshire, between Bedworth and Coventry, England. Closed in 1991...

Sandhole Colliery (or Bridgewater Colliery) was a coal mine originally owned by the Bridgewater Trustees operating on the Manchester Coalfield in Walkden...

Linnyshaw Colliery or Berryfield was a coal mine originally owned by the Bridgewater Trustees operating after 1860 on the Manchester Coalfield in Walkden...

Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery (simplified Chinese: 本溪湖煤矿; traditional Chinese: 本溪湖煤礦) was a coal mine in Benxi, Liaoning, China, first mined in 1905. Originally...

Seafield Colliery was in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Work on the colliery was started on 12 May 1954 and production began in 1966. On 10 May 1973, five...

are four operating collieries under Collieries Division: Chasnala Colliery, Jitpur Colliery, Ramnagar Colliery, and Tasra Colliery. Chasnala, Jitpur and...

Babbington colliery, which was adjacent to Cinderhill Colliery, was a coal mine in Cinderhill, Nottinghamshire, England. The mine opened in 1841, and...

Steetley Colliery is a former colliery on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border. The Duke of Newcastle owned mineral rights in much of north Nottinghamshire...

was, alongside Cotgrave Colliery, one of two new collieries opened in the county of Nottinghamshire in the 1960s. The colliery was closed in 1993 and turned...

The Risca colliery disasters were a series of catastrophic mine explosions near the Welsh town of Risca (then in the county of Monmouthshire) in the nineteenth...

Woolley Colliery was a coal mine sunk near Darton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Coal mines in the area were worked as early as 1850, and in the 1860s...

Pendleton Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after the late 1820s on Whit Lane in Pendleton, Salford, then in the historic...

Cynheidre Colliery was a coal mine located in the Gwendraeth valley, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Opened in 1954, it closed in 1989. Cynheidre was...

Brodsworth Colliery was a coal mine north west of Doncaster and west of the Great North Road. in South Yorkshire, England. Two shafts were sunk between...

Kingsbury Colliery was a coal mine in Kingsbury, Warwickshire, which operated between 1897 and 1968. It was opened in 1897 and changed the nature of the...

Top Colliery in Sharneyford between Bacup and Todmorden was, until 2014, the last coal mine still in operation in Lancashire. The Hill Top Colliery was...

Pentremawr Colliery (or Capel Ifan Colliery) was a coal mine, located in the Gwendraeth valley in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Due to the angle and depth...

Harworth Colliery was a colliery near the town of Harworth Bircotes in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England. It was abandoned in 2006 due to troubles at...

Brooketon Colliery, formerly known as Muara Coal Mine, was one of the underground coal mines in Brunei. The Brooketon Colliery is located in Serasa. It...

Ladyshore Colliery, originally named Back o' th Barn, was situated on the Irwell Valley fault on the Manchester Coalfield in Little Lever, then in the...

Haydock Collieries were collieries situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield, England. The company which operated the collieries was Richard...

Clipstone Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Clipstone, Nottinghamshire. The colliery opened in 1922 and operated until 2003. It was built by...

The Seaham Colliery was a coal mine in County Durham in the North of England. The mine suffered an underground explosion in 1880 which resulted in the...

Baggeridge Colliery was a colliery located in Sedgley, West Midlands England. The Baggeridge Colliery was an enterprise of the Earls of Dudley, whose ancestors...

Easington Colliery Band is a British brass band founded in 1915 and based in the village of Easington Colliery, County Durham, England. It was the band...

Rufford Colliery was a coal mine located near Rainworth, a village in Nottinghamshire, England. Its first shafts were sunk in 1911. In February 1913, fourteen...

Bersham Colliery was a large coal mine located near Rhostyllen in Wrexham, Wales. The mine accessed seams found in the Denbighshire Coalfield. The Wrexham...

1.273°W / 53.596; -1.273 Frickley & South Elmsall Colliery was opened by the Carlton Main Colliery Company Ltd in 1903 in South Elmsall, in Yorkshire...

Wheldale Colliery was a coal mine located in Castleford, Yorkshire, England which produced coal for 117 years. It was accessed from Wheldon Road. After...

Tower Colliery (Welsh: Glofa'r Tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world, until its closure...

Hamstead Colliery in Hamstead (then Staffordshire, now West Midlands), England, produced coal between 1878 and 1965, by mining the South Staffordshire...

Gresford Colliery was a coal mine located a mile from the North Wales village of Gresford, near Wrexham. The North Wales Coalfield, of which Gresford was...

Bryn Hall Colliery was a coal mine on the Lancashire Coalfield in Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire...

Tahmoor Colliery is an underground coal mine at Tahmoor in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia. Owned by SIMEC the colliery has been...

The Auchlochan Collieries were several collieries in Auchlochan and Coalburn, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Production started in 1894 - run by Caprington...

Parkside Colliery was a coal mine in Newton-le-Willows, in the historic county of Lancashire, but from 1974, until its closure in 1993, it was in Metropolitan...

Bradford Colliery was a coal mine in Bradford, Manchester, England. Although part of the Manchester Coalfield, the seams of the Bradford Coalfield correspond...

Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby...

Orgreave Colliery was a coal mine situated adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway about 5 miles (8 km) east of...

Horden Colliery was a coal mine in Horden, near Peterlee in County Durham, in Northeast England. It opened in 1900 and was closed on 28 February 1987....

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...

Grove Colliery was a colliery in North Lanes, Staffordshire. Located between the villages of Pelsall and Norton Canes. It opened in 1852 as Wyrley Grove...

Shotton Colliery is a village in County Durham, England. The civil parish of Shotton includes Shotton Colliery village and an area to the west, south and...

Peelwood Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1883 in Shakerley, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county...

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...

Bickershaw Colliery was a coal mine, located on Plank Lane in Leigh, then within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England. Bickershaw is located...

Shireoaks Colliery was a coal mine situated on the edge of the village of Shireoaks, near Worksop in North Nottinghamshire, close by the Yorkshire border...

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...

The Tarenni Colliery (Welsh: Gloddfa Tarenni) and its associated workings, are a series of coal mines and pits located between the villages of Godre'r...

Barrow Colliery was a coal mine at Worsbrough Park, South Yorkshire, England. It was first dug in 1873, with the first coal being brought to the surface...

Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England. Originally called Dalton Main, it was renamed after...

Haig Colliery was a coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, in north-west England. The mine was in operation for almost 70 years and produced high volatile strongly...

Hwange Colliery Company Limited (Formerly Wankie Colliery Company Limited) is the name of a company in Zimbabwe (Formerly Rhodesia) and of its associated...

Gibfield Colliery was a coal mine owned by Fletcher, Burrows and Company in Atherton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. A shaft was sunk...

Thoresby Colliery was a coal mine in north Nottinghamshire on the outskirts of Edwinstowe village. The mine, which opened in 1925, was the last working...

Hackney Colliery Band is a British jazz brass band from Hackney, London. It plays music inspired by New Orleans jazz and funk. The band's name is an in-joke...

51°34′19″N 7°8′54″E / 51.57194°N 7.14833°E / 51.57194; 7.14833 The Ewald Colliery (German: Zeche Ewald) is a disused coal mine in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia...

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...

The Scott Colliery was an anthracite coal mine located in Kulpmont, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The colliery played a direct role in founding...

The Zeche Zollern II/IV (translated: Zollern II/IV Colliery) is located in the northwestern suburb of Bövinghausen of Dortmund, Germany. The Gelsenkirchener...

Windsor Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Abertridwr, Caerphilly. Opened in 1895, it amalgamated with the Nantgarw Colliery in 1974, and closed...

Middridge Colliery was a colliery based in and near the village of Middridge in County Durham, England. The colliery, which was owned by The Weardale Iron...

The Diglake Colliery Disaster (also known as the Audley Colliery Disaster), was a coal-mining disaster at what was Audley Colliery in Bignall End, north...

Monkwearmouth Colliery (or Wearmouth Colliery) was a major North Sea coal mine on the north bank of the River Wear in Sunderland, England, United Kingdom...

Kilnhurst Colliery, formerly known as either Thrybergh or Thrybergh Hall Colliery, was situated on the southern side of the village of Kilnhurst, near...

Markham Colliery may refer to: Markham Colliery at Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, site of the Markham Colliery disaster Markham Colliery in Markham...

Abercynon Colliery was a coal mine located in Abercynon, South Wales. It was opened in 1889 and closed in 1988. The colliery was developed at a cost of...

Littleton Colliery was a deep coal mine situated two miles north of Cannock on the A34 in the village of Huntington. The colliery closed on 3 December...

The South Waratah Colliery (later just Waratah Colliery) was a coal mine located at Charlestown, in New South Wales Australia. The Waratah Coal Company...

54°47′6″N 1°44′9″W / 54.78500°N 1.73583°W / 54.78500; -1.73583 Cornsay Colliery is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles to the...

faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit. The soundtrack for the film was provided by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and the...

Waleswood Colliery was a coal mine located between Swallownest and Wales Bar, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery was adjacent to the...

Wyllie Colliery was located in the Sirhowy Valley, South Wales. The coal mine was sunk by the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company and opened in 1926. The colliery...

Oakdale Colliery was a coal mine located in the Sirhowy Valley, one of the valleys of South Wales. In the early years of the twentieth century the need...

Astley Green Colliery was a coal mine in Astley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. It was the last colliery to be sunk...

Balmain Colliery was a coal mine located in Birchgrove in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It produced coal from 1897...

Brookhouse Colliery was a coal mine within the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was operational between 1929 and 1985. To...

53°19′12″N 3°15′47″W / 53.320°N 3.263°W / 53.320; -3.263 Mostyn Colliery was a coal mine in Flintshire, North Wales, that was owned in the later part...

Bwllfa Colliery was a coal mine located in the Dare valley near Cwmdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It operated from 1856 to 1957, remaining open...

Mosley Common Colliery was a coal mine originally owned by the Bridgewater Trustees operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Mosley Common,...

Manton Colliery was a coal mine in north Nottinghamshire (Bassetlaw). The site was also known as Manton Wood Colliery. The land was owned by Henry Pelham-Clinton...

Lynemouth Colliery was a coal mine in Lynemouth, Northumberland, England. It was in operation between 1927 and 1994. According to Historic England, "it...

Mining accidents at the Markham Colliery at Staveley near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. On 30 July 1973, 18 coal miners were killed and a further...

Lambton Collieries was a privately owned colliery and coal mining company, based in County Durham, England. The name derives from Lambton Castle, the...

Maerdy Colliery was a coal mine located in the South Wales village of Maerdy (Welsh: Y Maerdy), in the Rhondda Valley, located in the county borough of...

Bullcroft Colliery was a coal mine situated by the village of Carcroft north of Doncaster. It operated from 1908 to 1970. The Bullcroft Colliery Company...

Mainsforth Colliery was situated between Ferryhill and the small hamlet of Mainsforth in County Durham, England, United Kingdom. It was adjacent to the...

Combermere Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1867 in Shakerley, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic...

The Hartley Colliery disaster (also known as the Hartley Pit disaster or Hester Pit disaster) was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England, that...

Nantgarw Colliery was a coal mine and later developed Coking coal works, located in the village on Nantgarw, Mid Glamorgan, Wales located just north of...

the town's colliery caused by an electrical spark, which took the lives of ten miners. Of the eleven present, only one survived. The colliery closed in...

Penallta Colliery was a coal mine, located close to Hengoed in the Rhymney Valley in the South Wales Valleys. A coal mine which in 1935 held the European...

The Cambrian Colliery was a large coal mine that operated between 1872 and 1967 near Clydach Vale in the Rhondda Valley, south Wales. It is notable for...

Wet Earth Colliery was a coal mine located on the Manchester Coalfield, in Clifton, Greater Manchester. The colliery site is now the location of Clifton...

Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly. It was in the county...

The Racecourse Colliery is an exhibit located at the Black Country Living Museum. The Black Country Living Museum has more than 40 old mine shafts on its...

Mount Colliery is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Mount Colliery had a population of 117 people...

Elms Colliery (also known as Middle Engine Pit) is a disused coal mine in Nailsea within the English County of Somerset. It has been scheduled as an ancient...

Bedford Colliery, also known as Wood End Pit, was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield in Bedford, Leigh, Lancashire, England. The colliery was owned...

The Sayre Colliery was an anthracite mining facility located in Mount Carmel Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, within the Western Middle Anthracite...

Great Western Colliery, which included the shaft known as the Hetty Pit, was a coal mine located at Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan in South Wales...

Newbridge Colliery Engine is a beam engine of 1845, now preserved on the campus of the University of Glamorgan, South Wales. Newbridge Colliery in Gelliwion...

The Maypole Colliery disaster was a mining accident on 18 August 1908, when an underground explosion occurred at the Maypole Colliery, in Abram, near...

respectively. The mine was a natural extension of the former collieries Kingsbury Colliery and Dexter Colliery, both of which have also closed. In 1983 an inclined...

Bedwas Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in the small Welsh village of Bedwas, two miles (3.2 km) north of Caerphilly. The colliery opened in 1913, and...

Ellerbeck Colliery was a coal mine located on the border of Coppull and Adlington in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. The Hilton House and...

Myuna Colliery is a coal mine at Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia. The colliery was developed to provide coal for the Eraring Power Station, 5 kilometres...

Parsonage Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Lancashire Coalfield in Leigh, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. The colliery, close...

The Cadeby Main Colliery was a coal mine sunk in 1889 in Cadeby, South Yorkshire, England. It commenced production in 1893 and was worked until it was...

The Morupule Colliery is a coal mine located in Palapye, Botswana, owned and operated by Debswana, a partnership between the government of Botswana and...

Towneley Colliery or Towneley Desmesne was a coal mine on the Burnley Coalfield in Burnley, Lancashire, England. Sunk in the late 1860s, it was linked...

The Birley Collieries were a group of coal mines set in the Shire Brook Valley in south-east Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They were connected to...

The Peckfield pit disaster was a mining accident at the Peckfield Colliery in Micklefield, West Yorkshire, England, which occurred on Thursday 30 April...

Colliery was a coal mine on the West Yorkshire Coalfield at Grange Moor between Wakefield and Huddersfield on the A642 road, in England. The colliery...

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...

Sutton Colliery was in the village of Stanton Hill, Nottinghamshire, England. It is now a country park. Sutton Colliery was known locally as "Brierley...

The Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a brass band, based in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England. It was formed in 1917, as a leisure activity for the workers...

Greenside Colliery is a town in the Emalahleni Local Municipality of the Nkangala District Municipality in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. Numerous...

The Ronchamp colliery shafts (French, Les puits des houillères de Ronchamp) are a series of collieries undertaken by the various mining companies in the...

Team Colliery is a hamlet and estate in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The estate is made up of 23 private and rented houses...

Yorkshire Main Colliery was a coal mine situated within the village of Edlington, south west of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery was created...

Plymouth. The Chauncey Colliery was located between the Grand Tunnel and the Avondale collieries. It was one of the few Plymouth collieries to remain independent...

The Hetton Colliery Lyon is an early British steam locomotive that still survives in preservation. It is remarkable for having continued working into the...

Kingdom, Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire, closed in December 2015. After 2015, most continuing coal mines were collieries owned by freeminers,...

Primrose Main Colliery, which was working before 1891. The Wallsend Main Colliery Company was wound up in January 1921. The Central Silkstone Colliery was sunk...

The Metropolitan Colliery is a coal mine located near Helensburgh, New South Wales owned by Peabody Energy. It was opened by in 1887 by the Cumberland...

Hylton Colliery, also known as Castletown Colliery, was a coal mine situated in Castletown, Sunderland. It was opened in 1900 and owned by Wearmouth Coal...

The Bolsover Colliery Company was a major mining concern established to extract coal from land owned by the Duke of Portland. At its peak the business...

Ferndale Colliery was a major coal mining complex comprising nine interconnected coal mines that operated in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, from 1857...

The Holditch Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident on 2 July 1937, in Chesterton, Staffordshire, England, in which 30 men died and eight were injured...

Yew Tree Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1845 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...

Six Bells Colliery was a colliery located in Six Bells, Abertillery, Gwent, Wales. On 28 June 1960 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed...

Bilsthorpe Colliery was a colliery in north Nottinghamshire. From when work started in 1925 to the pits closure in 1997, 77 people died at the pit. The...

Parc Slip Colliery was a coal mine near situated at Aberkenfig, near Tondu in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. This pit was opened in the 1860s by John...

Deep Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales, that operated from 1872 until 1991. Located next to the co-developed village of Treharris in the...

Upton Colliery was a coal mine near to the village of Upton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The site was 8.5 miles (13.7 km) north west of Doncaster...

Whitburn Colliery was a coal mine located about three miles south of South Shields, North East England, located on the North Sea coast. Marsden was originally...

The Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion (Welsh: Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd...

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...

Sheriff Hill Colliery or Ellison Main Colliery was a coal mine at Gateshead Fell in County Durham, England. The colliery had two shafts and provided employment...

Main Colliery was a coal mine situated in the village of Dinnington, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Until the coming of the colliery Dinnington...

Conservative government and allowed the closure of most of Britain's collieries (coal mines). Many observers regard the strike as "the most bitter industrial...

Thorne Colliery was a large colliery within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the South Yorkshire Coalfield. The colliery was open...

The Avondale Colliery was a coal mine in Plymouth Township, Luzerne County, nearly two miles northeast of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. The mine was considered...

Roundwood Colliery was a coal mine situated in the Don Valley, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England on the borders of Rotherham...

Cortonwood was a colliery near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery's proposed closure was a tipping point in the 1984–1985 miners' strike...

The Lundhill Colliery explosion was a coal mining accident which took place on 19 February 1857 in Wombwell, Yorkshire, UK in which 189 men and boys aged...

The last colliery, Silverdale Colliery, closed in 1998. Brick-maker Ibstock also operate a large clay quarry next to the former colliery. The main employer...

Evans of the Evans-Bevan coal mining partnership, had wanted to call the colliery after his daughter, Isabella Bevan who cut the first sod on the land at...

Chatterley Whitfield Colliery is a disused coal mine on the outskirts of Chell, Staffordshire in Stoke on Trent. It was the largest mine working The North...

Pleasley Colliery is a former coal mine in central England. It is located to the north-west of Pleasley village, which sits above the north bank of the...

Pit closed in 1938. Shakerley Colliery and Messhing Trees were owned by William Ramsden's Shakerley Collieries. The colliery was isolated from the main roads...

colliery (1,071 working below ground, and 189 on the surface). In 1923 the colliery came under the ownership of Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. The colliery consistently...

Manvers Main Colliery was a coal mine, sunk on land belonging to the Earl Manvers on the northern edge of Wath-upon-Dearne, in the borough of Rotherham...

built by the Denaby Main Colliery Company to house its workers and their families, and originally given the name Denaby Main Colliery Village, to distinguish...

The Prince of Wales Colliery was a coal mine that operated for over 130 years in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was permanently closed in 2002...

The Hetton colliery railway was an 8-mile (13 km) long private railway opened in 1822 by the Hetton Coal Company at Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, England...

Museum Blaenant Colliery (closed 1990) Bute Merthyr Colliery Bwllfa Colliery Cambrian Colliery Cefn Coed Colliery Museum Celynen North Colliery in Newbridge...

Wharncliffe Woodmoor 1, 2 and 3 colliery (part of Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Company Ltd, the Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Company was formed in 1873 when...

and collieries opened within the Rhondda. A level is seen as a horizontal cut into a hill or mountain to access a seam of coal, while a colliery consists...

Bentley Colliery F.C. was an English football club based in Bentley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Until December 2015 they played in the Central Midlands...

The Sneyd Colliery Disaster was a coal mining accident on 1 January 1942 in Burslem in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent. An underground explosion occurred...

Clifton Hall Colliery was one of two coal mines in Clifton (the other was Wet Earth Colliery), and was notorious for an explosion in 1885 which killed...

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...

Richmond Main Colliery is a heritage-listed former coal mine and now open-air museum at South Maitland Coalfields, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia...

Wallsend Colliery consisted of seven pits which were active between 1778 and 1935. In the 1820s the pits became incorporated as Russell's Colliery, which...

Creswell became the larger community. The name Creswell arose because the colliery company needed an address for deliveries during construction. The closest...

The National Federation of Colliery Enginemen and Boiler Firemen was a union federation in the United Kingdom. Its membership changed over time, but was...

The Bute Merthyr Colliery, in Treherbert in the Rhondda Valley, was the first colliery to produce steam coal in the Rhondda valley. A trial pit was dug...

tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery. Tours are led by former colliery workers. Rhondda Heritage Park is an Anchor Point of ERIH...

53°37′55″N 1°37′52″W / 53.632°N 1.631°W / 53.632; -1.631 The Flockton Collieries were small, shallow coal pits that exploited the coal seams north of the...

(Welsh: Trychineb Gresffordd) occurred on 22 September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, when an explosion and underground fire killed 261 men. Gresford...

Linby Colliery Football Club is a football club from Linby in Nottinghamshire, England. They were formed in 1892 and were known as Linby Colliery Welfare...

The Cymmer Colliery explosion occurred in the early morning of 15 July 1856 at the Old Pit mine of the Cymmer Colliery near Porth (lower Rhondda Valley)...

were used to investigate the local geology; the resultant Shakespeare colliery lasted until 1915. In 1911, investigation into whether there was other...

disasters refers to two explosions in 1882 and 1909 at the West Stanley colliery (also known as West Stanley pit or Burns pit), a coal mine near Stanley...

The sinking date for Siston Hill Colliery, Siston, Bristol is unknown, but was probably in the late 1790s or early 19th century. There is a surviving accident...

into a coal mining village by the opening of coal mines by the Snibston Colliery Company in the early 1830s. This industrial part of Snibston was subsequently...

Chilton Colliery Recreation Athletic F.C., normally referred to as Chilton Colliery Recreation, was an English association football club from Chilton...

The South Shields, Marsden, and Whitburn Colliery Railway was a Whitburn Coal Company built twin track branch railway line that ran along the North Sea...

New Lester Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield from the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century...

Ellesmere Colliery was a coal mine in Walkden, Manchester, England. The pit was located on Manchester Road, a short distance south of Walkden town centre...

Trimdon Colliery is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a few miles to the west of Hartlepool, and a short distance to the north of...

Sherwood Colliery F.C. is an English football club based in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. They are members of the United Counties League Premier...

Harworth Colliery Football Club is an English football club based in Harworth and Bircotes, Nottinghamshire. The club are currently members of the Central...

Great Boys Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield in the second half of the 19th century in Tyldesley, then in the historic county...

Markham Main Colliery was a coal mine in Armthorpe, on the eastern edge of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It could be seen, and was a landmark, from...

Kiveton Park Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Kiveton Park, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Until 1845, Kiveton was a rural village...

Snibston Colliery Ground was a cricket ground in Coalville, Leicestershire. The land for the cricket ground was originally set aside for the miners at...

The Möller Colliery was a coal mine in Gladbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which operated from 1901 until 1967, after which time the site was demolished...

High Hazels Colliery was a coal mine situated between the parish of Catcliffe, near Rotherham, and the parish of Handsworth, near Sheffield. It was adjacent...

colliery was linked to St George's Colliery for ventilation. The colliery became part of Manchester Collieries in 1929. In 1947 when the collieries were...

The Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band is a brass band based in West Yorkshire, England, and close to South Yorkshire. The South Elmsall Village Brass...

the physical surface remains of Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland. The colliery, sunk by the Lothian Coal Company in 1890, came...

Haig Colliery Mining Museum was a visitor attraction in Kells, on the site of Cumbria's last deep coal mine on the cliffs above Whitehaven in Cumbria,...

Parkfield Colliery was a coal mine near Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire, England. It was sunk in 1851 under the ownership of Handel Cossham. Coal was...

The National Federation of Colliery Officials was a trade union representing colliery workers in the United Kingdom who were not involved in manual labour...

1870s to the formation of Fletcher, Burrows and Company. Jacob became a colliery owner at Darcy Lever and had two sons, Ellis (Matthew Fletcher's heir who...

Landau Colliery is a populated place in the Emalahleni Local Municipality of the Nkangala District Municipality in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa...

Chanters Colliery in Hindsford. Musgraves supplied winding engines to Wheatsheaf Colliery in 1868, Mosley Common Colliery in 1870, Brackley Colliery in 1879...

Garw/Ffaldau Colliery was a colliery formed in 1975 in Pontycymer, Wales. It was formed from the joining together of the Garw Colliery and the Ffaldau Colliery. The...

The Hill End Colliery fire was an underground coal-seam fire. it burned from, at latest, August 1930 to at least early 1945, and most probably as late...

Navigation Colliery is a former coal mine in Crumlin, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales. Opened in 1911, at its peak it produced 145,000 tonnes of coal...

Llandavel had a colliery named in its own right. The main employment of the village was the coal industry as there were several small collieries and drift mines...

disaster (Welsh: Trychineb Aberfan) was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope...

Thurcroft Colliery was a coal mine situated in the village of Thurcroft, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. In 1902, the Rother Vale Colliery Company...

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...

Club Thorne Colliery (formerly Thorne Colliery F.C.) is a football club based in Moorends, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. They are currently members...

inaccurate "colliery village") describe such hardship, as do the poems of Idris Davies the miner, teacher and poet of Rhymney. New collieries, particularly...

Ebenezer Colliery was a coal mine located at Coal Point, New South Wales, Australia. Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld began mining at the south west...

Cleworth Hall Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1874 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of...

Hickleton Main Colliery was a coal mine in Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, England from 1892 to 1988. In 1933 it employed 2,560 people underground and 500...

ISBN 1-84306-017-5. Hafodyrynys Colliery - Northern Mine Research Society Hafodyrynys Colliery Hafodyrynys Colliery www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Hafodyrynys...

The Abercarn colliery disaster was a catastrophic explosion within the Prince of Wales Colliery in the Welsh village of Abercarn (then in the county of...

Jotejanaki Colliery on 28.6.1913 Loyabad Colliery on 16.1.1935 Mahabir Colliery on 13.11.1989 Majri Colliery on 5.8.1953 Makerwal Colliery on 6.7.1942...

colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near...

In 1984, the Yorkshire area had a total of 56 collieries. The last deep coal mine was Kellingley Colliery which closed on Friday 18 December 2015 signalling...

The Astley Green Colliery Museum is a heritage museum in Astley near Tyldesley in Greater Manchester, England, operated by the Red Rose Steam Society....

Messhing Trees, the colliery was sunk by William Ramsden and, with Nelson Pit, formed Ramsden's Shakerley Collieries. The colliery worked the Trencherbone...

Colliery Village prior to renaming in the late 1960s. The village was built in the 1920s specifically to house miners who worked at Welbeck Colliery....

51°38′20″N 3°21′32″W / 51.639°N 3.359°W / 51.639; -3.359 Lady Windsor Colliery was a coal mine located in the village of Ynysybwl in South Wales. Opened...

The occupation of Trentham Colliery, a coal mine in Staffordshire, England, was a protest against its closure which took place from 12 to 15 May 1993....

Upton Colliery Football Club was an English association football club based in Upton, West Yorkshire. From 1933 to 1947 it was a prominent member of the...

Arley's mining industry ended in 1968. The village once had an eponymous colliery running beneath part of its central area which employed 1,734 men when...

Shakerley Colliery was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield near Shakerley, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...

company that owned collieries and cotton mills in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. Gibfield, Howe Bridge and Chanters collieries exploited the coal...

The Tynewydd Colliery disaster occurred on 11 April 1877, when water from a nearby closed colliery flooded the Newydd Colliery in Porth and 14 miners...

Brinsley Colliery was a coal mine in west Nottinghamshire, close to the boundary with Derbyshire, in what is now Broxtowe district. It was opened around...

This is a list of collieries near Newcastle New South Wales, Australia, organised by local government areas. A.A. Co. 'A' Pit, between Brown & McCormack...

Woodhouse Colliery, also known as Whitehaven coal mine, was a proposed coal mine near to Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. The coal mine had been advertised...

A company town is a place where all or most of the stores and housing in the town are owned by the same company that is also the main employer. Company...

who was the manager and agent for three North Brancepeth Coal Company collieries (Broompark, Boyne and Littleburn - the latter two being in the village)...

Hall Colliery was a coal mine in Coppull in Lancashire, England. It was the largest coal mine on the Lancashire Coalfield north of Wigan. The colliery on...

Dover in Kent, England. It was the location of one of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield, which closed in 1987. The population of the hamlet...

The British Association of Colliery Management – Technical, Energy and Administrative Management (BACM-TEAM) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It...

received royalties from coal mining expansion when Hebburn Colliery opened. The colliery eventually operated three pits. In 1786 the Ellisons’ Hebburn...

became part of Manchester Collieries in 1929 and some of its collieries were nationalised in 1947. The company's collieries were on a part of the Manchester...

The Yuanyang colliery outburst occurred at the privately run Yuanyang colliery in Puding County, Anshun, Guizhou, People's Republic of China, at 9:40 p...

Silverwood Colliery platform, the original, was a wooden railway platform built for John Brown's Private Railway in order to operate Paddy Mail trains...

Chopwell Colliery was a coal mine situated at Chopwell, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The pit was first sunk in 1781, and was closed on 25 November 1966...

The Alaska Colliery was an anthracite mining facility located in Alaska, Pennsylvania, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northeast of Mount Carmel. Situated in the Western...

Rotherham Main Colliery was situated in Canklow, about 0.5 miles south of Rotherham town centre in the Rother Valley. The area was the site of an ancient...

Bowen Consolidated Colliery is a heritage-listed former mine at Station Street and Second Avenue, Scottville, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia...

The Highley Colliery Brass Band is a local brass band which first existed from the turn of the 19th century until the closure of the colliery in 1969. It...

Main Colliery was a coal mine situated in the Dearne Valley, close by the township of Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery was operated...

Horden Colliery in 1987. Main features include the Welfare and Memorial Parks and St Mary's church. It is connected to the villages of Blackhall Colliery and...

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is a former coal mine, now operating as a museum. It is located at Crynant near Neath in the South Wales Valleys. Coal mining...

New Stubbin Colliery was a coal mine situated in the township of Rawmarsh near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery was situated in a deep...

Easington Colliery Association Football Club is a football club based in Easington Colliery, County Durham, England. They are currently members of the...

county of Stirlingshire. It was on the site of the Polmaise Colliery 3&4 (Polmaise Colliery 1&2 were situated in Milhall), and both of the names Polmaise...

Craigrie Collieries near Clackmannan, Devon Colliery and Meta Colliery, near Fishcross, King o'Muirs Colliery near Tullibody, Tillicoultry Colliery. at Devonside...

became a busy, densely populated village, but with the closure of the collieries Wattstown suffered an economic downturn that still affects the village...

area made up of the three villages of East Boldon, West Boldon and Boldon Colliery in South Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. In 2001, they...

Beech Tree Colliery was one of a number of coal mining collieries in the Cradley Heath area and one of the most southerly on the South Staffordshire coalfield...

The Dalton Main Collieries Limited became a public company which appeared on the London Stock Exchange in December 1899. The company was set up by John...

the colliery site is the Power House, brought to the museum from Houghton Colliery. These were used to store explosives. Alongside the colliery is the...

Ram Hill Colliery, (grid reference ST679803) was a privately owned colliery in the Coalpit Heath area north-east of Bristol, England. It operated between...

Habergham closed and larger collieries were sunk at Bank House Colliery, Whittlefield Colliery and the old Fulledge Colliery was redeveloped and linked...

the former colliery manager's house that stood at the Eastern end of New Row and was considerably larger than the others. One of the colliery's reservoirs...

Frickley Colliery a recreational outlet. In a 1908 Yorkshire Telegraph and Star newspaper article the club was referred to as Frickley Colliery Athletic...

Wallarah Colliery was a coal mine located near Crangan Bay, Nords Wharf, New South Wales, Australia, and originally above ground utilities were at Mine...

Hamsterley Colliery, after the large mining colliery situated to the south of the village by the south banks of the River Derwent. The colliery, halfway...

Llancaiach Colliery was a coal mine in the South Wales Valleys, located just to the north of the village of Nelson and just to the south of Llancaiach...

Nine Mile Point colliery was a coal mine at Cwmfelinfach in the South Wales Valleys, originally known as "Coronation Colliery", and constructed between...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A pit village, colliery village or mining village is a settlement built by colliery owners to house their workers. The villages...

development of the Nantgarw Colliery, but various geographical problems resulted in a series of stalled developments of the colliery until post World War II...

colliery O Dhori colliery A CCL Dhori Area Office O DVC Bermo colliery A CCL B&K Area Office O Konar colliery O Bokaro colliery M Khasmahal colliery W...

drive that encouraged these engineers. Once an industrial workplace with collieries and an ironworks, it is now a commuting village for Newcastle upon Tyne...

Chislet Colliery Halt was a minor station on the Ashford to Ramsgate line. It opened in September 1919 and closed in 1971. Chislet Colliery started production...

eleven-mile railway line in Nottinghamshire, England. It was built to serve collieries opening in the coalfield around Mansfield, and ran between junctions at...

The Bedford Colliery disaster occurred on Friday 13 August 1886 when an explosion of firedamp caused the death of 38 miners at Bedford No.2 Pit, at Bedford...

The Gleision Colliery mining accident was a mining accident which occurred on 15 September 2011 at the Gleision Colliery, a drift mine at Cilybebyll in...

John Nixon (10 May 1815 – 3 June 1899) was an English mining engineer and colliery proprietor and an influential figure in the development of the South Wales...

in order to link Silverwood Colliery to staithes situated alongside the River Don. The line, along with the collieries, became the sole property of John...

Dunkerton Colliery Halt railway station served the colliery near the village of Dunkerton, Somerset, England, from 1911 to 1925 on the Bristol and North...

Colliery, Northern Mines Research Society, retrieved 26 November 2017 Nadin 2006, p. 26. Winstanley, p. 18. Winstanley, p. 19. Norley Hall Colliery,...

demanding sites as they were replaced. Older engines would often continue in colliery areas where coal was cheap. Engines of this period had a considerable cost...

Aston Colliery was a small coal mine sunk on Aston Common, within Rotherham Rural District but six miles east of Sheffield in the 1840s. In 1864 its workings...

Lalmatia Colliery was a private, underground coal mine at Lalmatia, District- Santhal Paragana (now in Godda District a breakaway part of Santhal Paragana)...

Area Office U Satgram Incline Colliery U Kuardi Colliery U Chapui Khas Colliery U Ratibati Colliery U Nimcha Colliery O Ardhagram Project O Kalidaspur...

Warren House Colliery was a coal mine situated to the north of Rawmarsh, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery within lands owned by Earl...

Ramsden's Shakerley Collieries was a coal mining company operating the Nelson and Wellington Pits from the mid 19th century in Shakerley, Tyldesley in...

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...

Orgreave Colliery platform was a workman's halt built to serve the miners working at Orgreave Colliery in South Yorkshire, England. These workmen's trains...

Ammanford Colliery Halt railway station served the colliery near Ammanford, West Wales. Opened to serve the colliery, the station closed, leaving the current...

The Point of Ayr Colliery Company was formed in 1883, and was the third company to attempt to extract coal from the North Wales Coalfield using a pit head...

caused by firedamp ripped through the underground workings at the Oaks Colliery at Hoyle Mill near Stairfoot in Barnsley killing 361 miners and rescuers...

Methodist Chapel, on Williams Street, was built in 1887. Sinking of Albion Colliery began in August 1884 on the site of Ynyscaedudwg Farm. It was owned by...

Caerphilly County Borough, Wales. It was well known for its neighbouring collieries, which employed nearly the entire local population in the early 20th century...

to the south of the village. This formerly served the colliery and a station, Chislet Colliery Halt railway station, operated between 1919 and 1971. A...

Crynant New Colliery Halt railway station served the colliery in the village of Crynant, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1938...

Bradford Colliery Brickworks operated on the site of the Bradford Colliery in Bradford, Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England...

number of collieries, including the Gosforth and Coxlodge Collieries. Gosforth Colliery was located in South Gosforth, while Coxlodge Colliery was west...

Aldwarke Main Colliery was a coal mine sunk in the Don Valley, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The name "Aldwarke" refers to an area in the Don...

surrounding countryside is a centre for the industry in Zimbabwe. Hwange Colliery is the largest in the country, with proven reserves that are estimated...

parish in Northumberland, England, and the site of the former Pegswood Colliery. Pegswood is two miles (3 km) east of Morpeth and three miles (5 km) west...

Harry Crofts Colliery was a small, short lived coal mine within the parish of South Anston, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The colliery was sunk between...

field". Hemingfield Colliery, also known as Elsecar Low Colliery, opened in 1840, and first produced coal in 1848. The colliery is now preserved as a...

Acland No. 2 Colliery is a heritage-listed former mine at 2 Francis Street, Acland, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland...

Holbeck and Welbeck". Sharing the same name, Welbeck Colliery operated from 1912 to 2011 at Welbeck Colliery Village (later renamed as Meden Vale), with a maximum...

The Newton Chikli Colliery disaster is an incident in Chhindwara (M.P.), India, which occurred on 10 December 1954. This incident occurred due to flooding...

being the Dilhorne Colliery, a large mine which was known in the coalfield for its modern steam engines. The site of Dilhorne Colliery is occupied nowadays...

The 1949 Enugu Colliery Massacre, also known as The Iva Valley Shooting, took place on 18 November 1949, when a British Superintendent of Police, F.S....

Nunnery Colliery was a coal mine close to Sheffield at Darnall, South Yorkshire. The mining company, known as The Waverley Coal Company, also worked High...

Place sold it to the Firbeck Colliery Company in July 1927. It was built to provide housing for the miners of Firbeck Colliery between 1923 and 1927. By...

Boundary or Bright Brook. Prior to the intense and swift development of the Colliery at the turn of the 20th century, Shirebrook, even as late as 1872 it was...

the colliery. However, activity declined in the latter half of the twentieth century with the colliery ceasing operations in 1982. (This colliery is not...

by the sinking of the Porth Colliery by David James of Merthyr, the success of which saw him build the Llwyncelyn Colliery in 1851, also in Porth. By 1850...

Woodhorn Museum, part of North East Museums and formerly known as Woodhorn Colliery Museum and Woodhorn Charitable Trust, is located in Ashington, Northumberland...

Howe Bridge Colliery was a coal mine which was part of the Fletcher, Burrows and Company's collieries at Howe Bridge in Atherton, Greater Manchester,...

the disused Legacy Colliery when the Great Western Railway built the Rhos Branch in 1901. The disused line built to serve the colliery in 1876 was used...

Hapton Valley Colliery was a coal mine on the edge of Hapton near Burnley in Lancashire, England. Its first shafts were sunk in the early 1850s and it...

53°24′04″N 1°24′11″W / 53.401°N 1.403°W / 53.401; -1.403 Tinsley Park Collieries were a group of coal mines situated in the Tinsley / Darnall area to the...

enginewright at the colliery, built his first locomotive Blücher with the help and encouragement of his manager, Nicholas Wood, in the colliery workshop behind...

serving collieries and other mineral workings, and was successively extended in the remote hills south of Brampton. It flourished when the collieries did...

Fawr valley. Two collieries were opened here during the Industrial Revolution, the Dunraven Colliery in 1865 and the Glenrhondda Colliery in 1911. Both had...

Chain Valley Colliery is a coal mine located at Mannering Park, New South Wales, Australia. The colliery was developed to provide coal for the Vales Point...

New Hawne Colliery was a coal mine in Hawne, in Halesowen, West Midlands, England. It operated from 1864 until the 1920s. Three surviving structures on...

Dawson Valley Colliery is a heritage-listed former coal mine at Morgan Street and The Esplanade, Baralaba, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was...

The Mauricewood Colliery Disaster, occurred at the Mauricewood pit, near Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland on 5 September 1889. A total of 63 miners were...

Warren Vale Colliery was a coal mine, also known as Piccadilly Colliery, situated alongside Warren Vale Road, between Rawmarsh and Swinton, South Yorkshire...

within the South Wales Coalfield. The Windsor Colliery was located in Abertridwr. In 1895, the Windsor Colliery Company started to sink two mine shafts to...

passing directly next to the western edge of the former Rossington Main Colliery. It briefly crosses the M18 at the point where the motorway crosses the...

Hwange Colliery F.C. (formerly known as Wankie Colliery F.C.) is a football club from Hwange, Zimbabwe, previously playing in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer...

Lambton colliery. In 1861 the Browns commenced development of a new colliery on land near present-day Adamstown which was named Hartley Vale Colliery. The...

remaining Lancashire collieries. (The last Lancashire deep-pit to close was Parkside Colliery in 1993). The 43 hectare colliery site lay completely derelict...

Blackhall Colliery railway station served the village of Blackhall Colliery in County Durham, North East England. It was located on the Durham Coast Line...

club was formed by miners at the local "F-Pit" Colliery in the early 20th century as Washington Colliery F.C. The club's distinctive red colours were agreed...

Wideopen. It was formerly known as Dinnington Colliery. Brunswick Village grew up around Dinnington Colliery, named after the nearby village of Dinnington...

relatively cheap to extract. In the middle of the eighteenth century the collieries of the area were kept busy supplying the many whisky distilleries in the...

sustain the collieries. The Waun Wyllt colliery was opened as a level mine in 1824 and was later renamed the Abercanaid Colliery. Gethin Colliery was located...

Backworth Colliery Band are a traditional British Brass Band based in Backworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. The band consist of 27 senior members and...

Dream, a 66-foot-high (20 m) sculpture located on the old Sutton Manor Colliery site. St Helens retains strong cultural ties to the coal industry and has...

century the town was dominated by mines with the largest being Polkemmet Colliery – a large coal mine, discovered in the town in the late 1800s – but this...

"Whitburn Colliery". Durham National Mining museum. Retrieved 18 June 2012. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marsden, Tyne and Wear. Whitburn Colliery Marsden...

The Durham County Colliery Enginemen's Association was a trade union representing engine operators at coal mines in County Durham. The union was founded...

The Sandfly Colliery Tramway (also known as the Kaoota Tramway) was a 20 km (12 mi), 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge tramway linking the Kaoota Mine to Margate...

travels in an eastwardly direction towards Nanaimo, where it goes through Colliery Dam Park and the neighbourhoods of Harewood and Chase River before emptying...

6 December 1875, an underground explosion occurred at the Swaithe Main Colliery. 239 men and boys were working underground at the time and of those, 143...

now demolished Walton Colliery, formerly known as Sharlston West colliery, has been transformed into a nature park (Walton Colliery Nature Park). Large...

Manchester Collieries was a coal mining company with headquarters in Walkden formed from a group of independent companies operating on the Manchester Coalfield...

built in 1895 by the Bolsover Colliery Company to designs by architect Percy B. Houfton for the workers of Creswell Colliery on land leased from the Welbeck...

Lane, and north at New Manchester where the coal seams outcropped. Other colliery companies operating in the area included Tyldesley Coal Company whose pits...

Abernant Colliery was a coal mine in the River Amman valley at Pwllfawatkin, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Pontardawe and 13 miles (21 km) north of Swansea...

people who lived in the village worked in nearby collieries, including Dexter Colliery and Kingsbury Colliery. Both closed in the late 1960s. The Church of...

for its collieries. The North Gawber Colliery which closed in 1988 was located to the north in Mapplewell and the East Gawber Hall Colliery, of which...

Bolsover Colliery Football Club was an English association football club based in Bolsover, Derbyshire. It competed in the FA Cup in the late 1940s. Bolsover...

Holditch Colliery. The colliery employed 1,500 men and mined ironstone in addition to coal. Despite heavy investment in the 1960s and 1970s the colliery closed...

U Belbaid Colliery U Parasea Colliery O Mahabir OCP U North Searsole Colliery U Kunustoria Colliery U Bansra Colliery U Amritnagar Colliery     The Kunustoria...

River Mersey via the Sankey Canal. On the Manchester Coalfield, the early collieries were those of the Duke of Bridgewater in Worsley, where the Bridgewater...

New Fancy was a colliery on the Forest of Dean Coalfield near Parkend in Gloucestershire, England. After the colliery closed its spoil heap was landscaped...

Hemsworth Colliery Football Club were a football club based in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, England. The team played in the Sheffield and District Football...

"Former Navigation Colliery Chimney (1890)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2019. "Former Navigation Colliery Chimney". British Listed...

Brandon Colliery railway station served the village of Brandon, County Durham, England from 1861 to 1964 on the Durham to Bishop Auckland Line. The station...

Dynea Colliery, Rhydyfelen Gelli-whion Colliery, Graig Great Western/Gyfeillion Colliery, Hopkinstown Lan Colliery, Hopkinstown Newbridge Colliery, Graig...

The Penygraig Colliery; after which the village would be named. After the Penygraig Colliery showed a successful profit the Naval Colliery Company opened...

The Felling Colliery (also known as Brandling Main) in Britain suffered four disasters in the 19th century, in 1812, 1813, 1821 and 1847. By far the worst...

Noses Point, near Dawdon beginning in 1900. The colliery opened for production in 1907. Dawdon Colliery closed on the 25th of July, 1991. The Club was...

place of intense industrial activity. A harbour, glass works, pottery, colliery, and brickworks have all left their marks on the landscape.[citation needed]...

Handel Cossham (31 March 1824 – 23 April 1890) was a British colliery owner, lay preacher and Liberal politician who was active in local government and...

also notable for leading the rescue and recovery team after the Hartley Colliery disaster of 1862. William Coulson was born in 1791 in Gateshead to William...

53°32′06″N 1°16′55″W / 53.535°N 1.282°W / 53.535; -1.282 Barnburgh Main Colliery was a coal mine situated on the outskirts of the village of Barnburgh,...

translates to, 'The old home of Morgan' or 'Morgan's old home'. Hendreforgan Colliery (historically also known as the Cox's) was first opened in 1814, being...

Tower Colliery. O'Sullivan was born in Abercwmboi, in the heart of the South Wales coalfield, into a mining family. After he joined Tower Colliery as an...

Colliery Stadium is a multi purpose stadium in Birsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket...

Witton Park Colliery was a coal mine located in Witton Park, near Witton-le-Wear and Bishop Auckland in County Durham, Northern England. Part of the Durham...

The Richmond Vale Railway was a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) colliery railway line in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, servicing coal mines...

starting in 1437. Kilmersdon Colliery was established from February 1875 as part of the Writhlington group of collieries. Access to coal mining beneath...

Hospital U Jambad Colliery U Madhabpur Colliery U Naba Kajora Colliery U Parascole Colliery U Madhusudanpur Colliery U Khas Kajora Colliery     The Kajora...

Silksworth, the industrial age colliery village which expanded north west of the original settlement. The former colliery being situated to the north west...

Originally a series of hamlets and settlements such as Pontop, West Nook, Colliery Dykes and the township of Collierley, by 1820 the name Dipton was applied...

There were 68 collieries in the Derbyshire coalfield when the British coal industry was nationalised in 1947. By 1994 they were all closed. The last six...

Langwith Colliery railway station served the miners of the colliery in Whaley Thorns, Derbyshire, England, from 1894 to 1945 on the Mansfield to Worksop...

when it was initially installed at the Griff Colliery near Coventry. An engine was installed at a colliery in Ashton-under-Lyne in about 1760. Known locally...

The Nanshan Colliery disaster is a fatal gas explosion that occurred on November 13, 2006 at the Nanshan Colliery in Lingshi County, Jinzhong, Shanxi...

served the relatively new village of Shotton Colliery, which grew around the nearby Shotton Grange Colliery, as well as Old Shotton on the Stockton to Sunderland...

league system. The club came into existence in 1919 as Rossington Main Colliery, making their FA Cup debut in 1921. They competed in the FA Cup until the...

Aberpergwm is the site of a colliery in the Vale of Neath near Glynneath in south Wales. The site at Aberpergwm had been worked since 1811 as a series...

several local collieries. The branch was opened on 3 April 1876, and served Ansley Hall Colliery, Stockingford Colliery and Nuneaton (New) Colliery. The branch...

A methane explosion occurred at the Durban Navigation Colliery on 8 October 1926, killing 124 miners. It is the worst mine explosion in South Africa's...

Ghanoodih colliery O Dobari colliery M Bera colliery M Bastacola colliery O Kusunda colliery M Dhansar colliery O Gondudih Khas Kusunda colliery O East Basuriya...

Robert, Thomas and James Knowles to continue the business. Little Bolton Colliery on Slater Lane near the River Tonge in Bolton was owned by the company...

the late 1860s to accommodate miners and their families at the nearby collieries and coal mines. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be...

Teralba Colliery was a mine located at Teralba, New South Wales, Australia. The mine was opened in 1978 by BHP. Longwall mining was undertaken from the...

trackbed now being used as cycle paths in several places. A complex set of collieries, coal pits, tile works, fire-clay works and workers villages are evident...

Taff Merthyr Colliery halt served the nearby Taff Merthyr Colliery near the village of Trelewis in the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales, from 1928...

Staffordshire, England. It is near Meir. Florence Colliery was built in 1874, and demolished in 1994. Coal from the colliery was used in the final firing of a Bottle...

The Union Colliery Company was a bituminous coal mining company based in St. Louis Missouri. The company had branch offices in Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha...

Cymmer and Porth. Dinas is the site of Dinas Lower (Dinas Isaf/Dinas Ishaf) Colliery, sunk by Walter Coffin in 1812 as the first deep coal mine in the Rhondda...

extraction industry gained traction. The North's Navigation Collieries company established Caerau Colliery in 1889, and following an insatiable demand for labour...

An underground methane explosion occurred at the Trans-Natal Colliery near Ermelo in South Africa on 9 April 1987, killing 35 miners. "We care and we remember:...

20th century Armthorpe became known for its Coal mining and a deep seam Colliery was sunk; the pit was named Markham Main. The mining increased the local...

replaced by the larger Arael Griffin colliery, which opened in 1898 and later became known as Six Bells Colliery. The village was incorporated into Abertillery...

Bermo colliery A CCL B&K Area Office O Konar colliery O Bokaro colliery M Khasmahal colliery W Kargali washery M Kargali colliery O Karo colliery     8km...

in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Allanton Colliery was the last colliery to be built and the first colliery to be taken over by the National Coal Board...

Asfordby Colliery (also known as Asfordby super-pit and Asfordby Mine) was a coal mine located in the village of Asfordby, near to Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire...

to town to the coal mining industry; the Sophia-Jacoba colliery was opened in 1914. This colliery (the last in the Aachen coalfield) was closed in 1997...

were operating around Blue Lodge Farm (a.k.a. Colliery Farm). In the early 20th century, Shilbottle Colliery was bought for £50 by the English Co-operative...

National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988 as the...

the Burwood Colliery, and also opened a new colliery at Redhead, which was named the Durham Colliery. With the re-opening of the colliery at Dudley in...

Hall and the remaining 1500 acres were sold in 1893 to a syndicate of colliery proprietors. The 150th anniversary event of the Liverpool and Manchester...

and present day beauty of Sutton and Bold in St. Helens Sutton Manor colliery 1990 – photographs of the colliery Flickr Group Photographs of the site....

1851, although it is not known how well-established the colliery was at this point. Harton Colliery was the location of a successful experiment in 1854 by...

Great Northern Railway were railway branch lines built to access the collieries in the Nottinghamshire coalfield in England. The Midland Railway had long...

The Sheffield Coal Company was a colliery owning and coal selling company with its head office situated in South Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England...

of the FA Cup in the 1938–39 season. After the assets of the original Colliery Welfare were transferred to a new club in Darlington in 2016, Community...

Tilaboni Colliery U Shyamsundarpur Colliery O Shankarpur OCP U Kumardihi B Colliery U Kumardihi A Colliery U Moira Colliery U Khandra Colliery U Bankola...

Morden Colliery Historic Provincial Park is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) historic provincial park near the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia...

last town colliery to be opened, Vane Tempest. By 1992, however, all three pits (Dawdon Colliery, Vane Tempest Colliery and Seaham Colliery – known locally...

The South Maitland Railway was an extensive network of privately owned colliery and passenger railway lines which served the South Maitland coalfields...

Agricultural Company Mine Manager's House is a heritage-listed former colliery official's residence at 195 Denison Street, Hamilton, a suburb of Newcastle...

and 75 dependent children. In 1902 a gas explosion in the Mount Kembla Colliery in the Illawarra region of New South Wales resulted in the deaths of 96...

promoted to enginewright for the collieries at Killingworth, responsible for maintaining and repairing all the colliery engines. He became an expert in...

Lambton Colliery Railway No. 29 is a preserved 0-6-2 tank locomotive built by Kitson and Company for the Lambton Colliery network in 1904. It was the...

the north-eastern outskirts of Glasgow. Originally built around Cardowan Colliery, Garnkirk fire-clay works and clay mines in the immediate area, Cardowan's...

and employed 409 people. This colliery incorporates the former Pelton, Cessnock No.1 (Kalingo) and Ellalong collieries near Paxton, all of which had closed...

the 1960s, Llay was a coal mining village. Llay Main Colliery, at one time the largest colliery in Wales and after 1952 the deepest pit in the UK, was...

Kujama colliery O Kuya colliery O Ghanoodih colliery O Dobari colliery M Bera colliery M Bastacolla colliery O Kusunda colliery M Dhansar colliery O Gondudih...

Ansley Common, Church End, Birchley Heath and, previously, Ansley Hall Colliery. In 2021, the parish had a population of 2,598. Ansley is on the River...

2016. "Albion Colliery". BBC Wales. 2008. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2010. "Albion Colliery Cilfynydd". Welsh...

The Hulton Colliery Company was a coal mining company operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid 19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton,...

Singareni Collieries Company Limited, also known as SCCL, is a state-owned coal mining enterprise in India. It is jointly owned by the Government of Telangana...

Rastriya Colliery Majdoor Sangh is a trade union of colliery workers of India. It is affiliated by ITUC affiliated Indian National Trade Union Congress...

extensive landed proprietor, prominent businessman, colliery owner, Director of Aberdare Collieries, and a Mayor. He was a Justice of the Peace and member...

Wingham Colliery railway station was a railway station on the East Kent Light Railway in southeast England. It was intended to serve Wingham Colliery, a short...

under-manager at Hetton Colliery before transferring to South Africa in 1891, where he became the manager of Walmsley Collieries near Newcastle, Colony...

centred on a triangular 'green', which contains a war monument. The newer 'Colliery' area of Ryhope flanks the Ryhope Street/Tunstall Bank Road, which leads...

brakes. The train then ran to Orgreave Colliery platform and Treeton Colliery. The line at Orgreaves Colliery was quadruple track, the centre tracks being...

Fifeshire. The hamlet was expanded in 1911 to house the miners from a nearby colliery. Today Blairhall has a primary school and a community leisure centre. The...

benefactors in the colliery owners and many took on the names of specific collieries. A memorable image of the connection between the collieries and brass bands...

Area Office U Haripur Colliery U CL Jambad Colliery U Bahula Colliery U New Kenda Colliery U Chhora Block Incline U Siduli Colliery     The Kenda Area is...

at a colliery in Allerton Bywater, West Yorkshire, England, killing five miners and one pit pony. The Colliery was owned by Airedale Collieries Ltd. at...

The Western Mostyn Colliery Company was formed in 1873 with the purpose of investigating the potential of a coal mine at Point of Ayr, in Flintshire, Wales...

in 1899, sited prior to entering the colliery grounds. Before the sinking of the shafts for Warsop Main Colliery took place, around 1893 the Staveley...

killed. The Wood Pit was one of at least 20 collieries in the area operated by the mining company Haydock Collieries. It consisted of the Ravenhead mine and...

and in 1801 he was appointed viewer of Benwell Colliery, soon buying a thirteenth share in the colliery worth £2,700, beginning his role as a Director...

Cross Company opened their first colliery in Morton. Most of the houses now in Morton were built to house the colliery workers. See separate sections below...

Creswell Colliery F.C. was an English association football club which participated in the Midland Football League and the FA Cup. During the 1954/55 season...

SAIL Chasnala colliery U Amlabad colliery U Sudamdih Shaft colliery U Sudamdih Incline colliery M Patherdih colliery M Bhowrah South colliery M Bhowrah North...

he became a surveyor at the Ocean Colliery, Cwmpark. By 1877 he was manager of the Bwllfa and Merthyr Dare Collieries. In 1891 the Bwllfa Company was formed...

academic, anti-vaccinationist, mining engineer and a managing director (collieries). He was jailed for pacifist activity during the First World War. Lupton...

40 horsepower and used for drainage. In the 1860s Long Benton or Benton Colliery stood at OS grid reference NZ 27093 67438, where Benton Road crossed the...

village began on 11 April 1899. The settlement of Easington Colliery developed around the colliery. The settlements along the B1283 road has resulted in both...

Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Brass Band, a multi award-winning traditional brass band, with strong ties to the former colliery. Listed buildings in Clayton...

explosion occurred in Dhori colliery near Dhanbad, which led to fire in the mine. The fire killed 268 miners. Dhori colliery is located near Bermo. The...

in 1919. The following summer they changed their name to Houghton Main Colliery and reached the 3rd Qualifying Round of the cup before winning the Yorkshire...

commercial railway to use steam locomotives successfully. John Blenkinsop, the colliery's viewer, or manager, had decided that an engine light enough not to break...

Coanwood. The area has previously been noted for coal mining based at Lambley Colliery. Coal reserves still exist in the area as part of the Midgeholme Coalfield...

Saturday, 28 May 1887 when 73 miners died in a firedamp explosion at Udston Colliery. Caused, it is thought, by unauthorised shot firing the explosion is said...

Gateshead Leam Rangers Hartlepool Pools Youth Richmond Town Shotton Colliery Silksworth Colliery Welfare South Moor Washington West Auckland Reserves Willington...

Brass was a manager and later director of Houghton Main Colliery Co Ltd. According to the Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory he was "one of the...

Pontefract Collieries Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The team currently plays in the...

remaining operational deep coal mine in North East England. Ellington Colliery closed on 26 January 2005. It was the last deep mine in the UK to extract...

owned and operated by the Main Colliery Company Limited, the successor of the Dynevor Dyffryn and Neath Abbey United Collieries Company Limited. The New Neath...

the deaths of 38 miners at Bedford Colliery on 13 August 1886. There were several accidents at Bickershaw Colliery, but the most serious was in 1932,...

growth of the Rhondda Valley. The son of a colliery official, Hood would make his name as a coalowner of collieries first in Scotland and later in Llwynypia...

coalfield. Collieries mining in the Warwickshire Coalfield were: Alexandra Colliery Alvecote Colliery Amington Colliery Ansley Hall Colliery Arley Colliery Baddesley...

Mines Deerpark Mines Drumskehey Colliery Coalbrook & Drominagh Colliery Drominagh Colliery Dromagh Colliery Lisnacon Colliery Allihies, see also Allihies...

reserves) Firbeck Main Colliery Firth Vickers Frecheville Community Frickley Colliery (first team & reserves) Fryston Colliery Welfare Gainsborough Trinity...

Burngreave United Dinnington Town Elite AFC Evo Soccer Glapwell Harworth Colliery Ollerton Town RHP Sports and Social Rossington Rossington Main Reserves...

'industrial estate village' for nearby Wentworth Woodhouse, with multiple collieries and two major ironworks. It is seen as one of the UK's first model villages...

Region of New South Wales, Australia. It owes its origins entirely to the colliery there of the same name. It had a population of 1,027 in 2011 About 1900...

number of collieries: Hunwick Colliery Newfield Colliery and Brickworks West Hunwick Colliery Rough Lea Colliery Willington/Sunnybrow Colliery Via the West...

Buckhill Colliery Halt railway station was an unadvertised halt for workers at Buckhill Colliery north east of Camerton, near Cockermouth in Cumberland...

Ollerton Colliery F.C. was an English football club. The club were members of the Yorkshire League for three years prior to the Second World War, finishing...

It was built between 1839 and 1842 to transport coal from Leazes Main Colliery in Spital Tongues, to riverside staithes (jetties), ready for loading onto...

Lochend Colliery was a mine located at Speers Point, New South Wales, Australia. William Brooks began mining coal at the foot of the Munibung Hill near...

The village lies in an area with a strong mining history and had its own colliery. Weetslade Country Park, to the east of the village, is reclaimed from...

manages the Union Government's 49 percent equity participation in Singareni Collieries Company, a public sector undertaking that is a joint venture with the...

Derwent care home. Low Westwood grew as a result of coal mining. Westwood Colliery, located on the Shotley Bridge to Newcastle road, was operational from...

the mines in the area closed in the 1960s such as Abercrave Colliery and Ynyscedwyn Colliery. Now only the Nant Helen opencast coal site remains in the...

the north of Trimdon. At 14:40 on 16 February 1882 the Trimdon Grange colliery suffered a major explosion causing the deaths of 69 men and boys. The coroner...

Seaham, County Durham. He played for Dawdon Colliery, Ryhope Colliery, Seaham Harbour, Washington Colliery, Southport, Manchester United, Queens Park Rangers...

the several collieries that once operated nearby to Steelend, which included Sunnybraes Colliery, Saline Valley Colliery, Killernie Colliery and North Steelend...

11 June 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025. "Backfilling the Zollverein colliery". Schwing Stetter. 5 June 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2025. Most sections...

Rotherham Town at Clifton Lane. In 1923, the club was renamed as Kiveton Park Colliery, reflecting its close ties with the village pit. The club, like most others...

work in the Killingworth Colliery between 1814 and 1826. George Stephenson was appointed as engine-wright at Killingworth Colliery in 1812 and immediately...

farmland, but grew rapidly after coal mining began in the 1850s. Pentre Colliery was the site of a major explosion in 1871 that killed 38 men. The village...

Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1887, to seat 270, and cost £400. Browney Colliery (mining) officially closed in 1938. The Browney rail crash of 1946 killed...

the line. Mining at the Alveley Colliery began in 1938, and the halt opened around 1944 for the workers at the Colliery. Ownership of the halt passed from...

promote tourist travel, the passenger business was never buoyant, but collieries were connected to the line, at first and in succeeding years. The Great...

Woodhouse was the hub of two colliery branches: to the west a branch to Orgreave Colliery, which was extended to reach Treeton Colliery under the MS&LR (Extension...

system required a high level of trust. Checkweighmen appointed by the colliery management were often accused of underestimating weights, or even working...

Allhallows Colliery railway station was in the former county of Cumberland, now Cumbria, England. It was a stop on the Bolton Loop (sometimes referred...

John Shaw's, 1738-1938, Sherratt & Hughes "Derbyshire Heritage. Castedge Colliery". Derbyshireheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2013. "The Grimshaws of...

Eppleton Colliery Welfare Ground (often shortened to Eppleton CW) is a football ground located in Hetton-le-Hole in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear...