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‘This is the destruction of an industry – there probably isn’t much point in farming any more’
December 2015 saw the closure of Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire, Britain’s last deep coal mine. But the way of life that evolved around this once-thriving industry had all but vanished ...
BBC5y
Woodhouse Colliery: First UK deep coal mine in decades to go ahead
The last deep coal mine in the UK, Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, closed in 2016. West Cumbria Mining said on its website: "A study in America showed a coal mine with 300 employees ...
Morning Star15d
End of an era for Kellingley
KELLINGLEY colliery, which is to close on December 15 ... Kellingley’s coal seams were — and are — huge, eight feet from top to bottom at a time when one Yorkshire mine was operating a seam of just 16 ...
BBC5y
Whitehaven deep coal mine plan moves step closer
West Cumbria Mining Company Woodhouse Colliery could create 500 jobs The last deep mine in the UK, Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, shut in 2016. A meeting of Cumbria County Council's ...
Morning Star6d
Last miners win £2m in redundancy payout fight
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) won a “protective award” for the 549 coalminers at Kellingley colliery in Yorkshire ... Kellingley’s owner. Each miner will receive about £3,800 on top of their ...
Business Insider India2y
Inside the dark, dirty way the world gets one of its biggest fuel sources
Miners work about 500 meters underground at the Boleslaw Smialy coal mine, a unit of coal miner Kompania Weglowa (KW) in Laziska Gorne, Silesia, southern Poland, September 11, 2015. Coal mining ...
The Yorkshire Post3y
Thoresby Colliery
More than two years after the Kellingley colliery closed, more than 300 miners, staff and surface workers at the once-great Yorkshire pit are still awaiting pay ...