- Coal
mining is the
process of
extracting coal from the
ground or from a mine. Coal is
valued for its
energy content and
since the 1880s has been widely...
-
Calley built the
first successful engine of this type at the
Conygree Coalworks near
Dudley in the West Midlands. A
working replica of this
engine can...
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reached Albertville in 1915, and in 1916 the port was
constructed and the
coalworks at
Greinerville opened. At the end of 1940 a
military base was established...
- Country, of
which the more
famous was that
erected in 1712 at the
Conygree Coalworks in
Bloomfield Road
Tipton now the site of "The
Angle Ring
Company Limited"...
-
birth rate. The
Blaenavon Coal and Iron
Company developed the Big Pit
coalworks with
adjoining steel works particularly for rail manufacture. The steel-making...
- from
Irvine to the
Harbour thereof, with a
subsidiary Branch to
Perceton Coalworks. (Repealed by
Glasgow and
South Western Railway Consolidation Act 1855...
- the
County of Lanark, and a
collateral Cut from the said
Canal to the
Coalworks at Hurlet, in the
County of Renfrew. Red Lion
Square Improvement Act 1806...
- world's
first successful steam pumping engine,
which was
erected at
Conygre Coalworks in 1712 by
industrialist Thomas Newcomen. A full-size
replica of the engine...
- was noted, with the
opening of coal
mines in the area. At the time, the
Coalworks company,
since taken over by
Whitehaven Coal,
estimated that it had thermal...
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removed from the
village in 1974 and
rebuilt in
Knighton near Adbaston.
Coalworking in the area
dates back to the
Middle Ages, when
Cistercian monks from...
