Small villages developed rapidly to service the new collieries, often with little or no provision for sewage treatment.

The new colliery had its own power plant fueled by coal from the mine.

Plans in hand call for the opening of new collieries which will treble the 1953 output.

He was managing a big, new colliery in Yorkshire.

During planning and building the surface infrastructure for the new colliery, employment of 3,000 mineworkers was expected at completion.

In the early 20th century a new colliery at Thurcroft was developed.

As a result of the new colliery, the population of Kiveton leapt from 300 to 1,400 over a period of just ten years.

The law stated that every new colliery be built with:

Work began clearing the site for the new colliery at Oakdale with the sinking of the pit in 1907.

His decision to sink a new colliery at Dawdon in 1899 was to change the face of the area forever.