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UK. England. Kent. 51°13′30″N 1°19′12″E / 51.225°N 1.32°E / 51.225; 1.32. Betteshanger is a village and former civil parish. now in the parish of Northbourne, in the Dover district, in east Kent, UK, near Deal. It gave its name to the largest of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield. [1] In 1931 the parish had ...
County Durham. 54°47′13″N 1°19′45″W / 54.78681°N 1.32912°W / 54.78681; -1.32912. 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 to the east of Easington. It had a population of 4,959 in 2001, [1] and 5,022 at the 2011 ...
In 1909 the Bedwas Colliery Company leased 1,475 acres of land, on the slopes of Mynydd y Grug just outside the village of Trethomas. [1] As the best and easiest mineral rights had already been taken, Bedwas was forced to go deep, [2] and called on the proven continental experience of Austrian Edmund L. Hann (cousin of meteorologist Julius von Hann), to design the colliery, having previously ...
Golborne Colliery Golborne Colliery was started by Edward Johnson in 1878 [11] and bought by Evans and Company in 1880. It was still working 100 years later. [ 10 ] In 1975 nearly 1000 men worked at the pit taking coal from the Crombouke, Lower Florida and Ince Six Feet mines.
The mines produced anthracite, a natural smokeless fuel, which unlike other forms of coal is not a major contributor to air pollution and air pollution-related deaths. [2] [3] Other neighbouring coal mines were the Vera (named after Vera Wandesforde, the eldest daughter of the owner) and the Rock near Glenmullen. [4] Deerpark Colliery opened in ...
Led to a legal requirement for all mines to have at least two shafts. The Hartley Colliery disaster (also known as the Hartley Pit disaster or Hester Pit disaster) was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England, that occurred on 16 January 1862 and resulted in the deaths of 204 men and children. The beam of the pit's pumping engine broke ...
Chatterley Whitfield. Coordinates: 53.0764°N 2.1752°W. Chatterley Whitfield Colliery is a disused coal mine on the outskirts of Chell, Staffordshire in Stoke on Trent, England. It was the largest mine working the North Staffordshire Coalfield and was the first colliery in the UK to produce one million tons of saleable coal in a year.
With coal having been extracted in the area from the 1600s, [1] the commercial extraction of coal was developed by John Lambton in the lands surrounding the castle through the Wear Valley. The first of seven pits was sunk in the village of Bournmoor from 1783 onwards, which together were to make up what was known as Lambton Colliery .