This is the old Silverwood Colliery near Rotherham.
Once held the record for 1 million tonnes of coal produced in a week. Closed down shortly after the miners strike in the 80's.
The (hard) coal mine “Colliery Prosper Haniel” in Bottrop, Ruhr Area has got four locations:
The mines Prosper IV and Prosper V in Kirchhellen (a part of Bottrop), the biggest one: Haniel, near Oberhausen and Prosper II, an abandoned pit near the Coke plant “Prosper”. Here is only coal dressing, the Training and a Monument called „Malakow-Turm”.
The colliery's important data: 4.19...
At approximately 9.15am on Friday 21st October 1966, Merthyr Vale colliery tip situated on the mountainside overlooking the village of Aberfan in South Wales, slipped and descended on Pantglas Junior School like an avalanche, destroying both the school and 20 nearby houses in its path, and rendering other houses in the vicinity unsafe for habitation. Half a million tonnes of coal waste ...
The Causey Arch is a bridge near Stanley in County Durham. It is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge.
It was built in 1725-26 by architect Ralph Wood, funded by a conglomeration of coal-owners known as the "Grand Allies" (founded by Colonel Liddell and the Hon. Charles Montague). Two tracks crossed the Arch — one to take coal to the River Tyne, and the other for the retur...
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