I would say ninety five percent of people in the village are employed at the local colliery.

The local colliery that was a drift mine was closed in 1974.

When the station first opened, the majority of the coal burned there was taken from various local collieries in Yorkshire.

Brace briefly attended school before starting work at the local colliery, aged 12.

Some banners, such as Spennymoor's, represent a group of former local collieries rather than individual ones.

He also had a vested interests in a number of other local collieries and businesses.

There was also a branch to a local colliery.

The line was constructed from 1911 to 1917 to serve a local colliery at Tilmanstone.

By the 1990s many of the local collieries had ceased operating and the village began to lose its mining identity.

At the age of 13 he went to work underground in the local colliery.