Converse of object

• 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.

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.

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

• phase: Gelli, on the other hand, is primarily a later, 2nd phase colliery settlement, dating from the late 1870s.

• steam: Others stayed away, finding work in the South Wales coalfield where the new steam coal collieries were opening up in the southern valleys.