colliery

Converse of object

• neighbor: The inhabitants, however, find employment in the neighboring collieries.
• sink: The DMCC went on to sink a further colliery, Cadeby Main, in 1889.
• serve: The canal once served 30 collieries in the 19th.
• operate: A number of Collieries operated in Abernant, many of which were opened originally by the Aberdare Iron Company.

Preposition: in

district: One of the large number of collieries in the district was called the Diamond Colliery.

Adjective modifier

• Cambrian: Photograph taken at the ceremony to cut the first sod of the Cambrian Colliery No 4 Pit.
• former: Adjacent to the former colliery lies the Rugeley Power Station.
• nearby: Stone corners mark the former entrance to Hemingfield Basin, which served the nearby colliery.
• extensive: By the late 19th century there were extensive collieries in Talke, mainly belonging to the Talk o ' the Hill Colliery Company.
• numerous: His actual earnings in the case first quoted, and in numerous other collieries, are even less than they were before.
• various: There were however at least six other narrow gage inclines at various collieries and perhaps more have gone unrecorded.

Modifies a noun

• spoil: Perhaps colliery spoil is polluting the water at the bottom end of the lake.
• shale: A sample of about 30kg of the colliery shale was obtained.
• fireman: A married man of Birch View, Edge Green, Ashton-in-Makerfield who was the colliery fireman.
• proprietor: Some years ago the deceased was a colliery proprietor near Wolverhampton, where he amassed considerable wealth.
• heap: Three Sisters Recreation area Large Recreation Area reclaimed from three huge colliery spoil heaps - hence the name.
• explosion: John On 25th May 1812 there occurred the first great colliery explosion for which we have anything approaching really accurate records.

Noun used with modifier

• coal: Others stayed away, finding work in the South Wales coalfield where the new steam coal collieries were opening up in the southern valleys.
• steam: Others stayed away, finding work in the South Wales coalfield where the new steam coal collieries were opening up in the southern valleys.
• phase: Gelli, on the other hand, is primarily a later, 2nd phase colliery settlement, dating from the late 1870s.