The Racecourse Colliery is an exhibit located at the Black Country Living Museum. The Black Country Living Museum has more than 40 old mine shafts on...

to the Racecourse Colliery exhibit at the Black Country Living Museum. There were as many as five or six hundred small pits like this exploiting the seams...

Pontefract Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The track is left-handed undulating course...

Smethwick. The museum site contained 42 disused mine shafts, most of which had been filled in. Two are preserved, one at the Racecourse Colliery and Brook...

boilers at The Racecourse Colliery. Three years later, he became a winding engineman, working at the Etruria Hall Collieries and then elsewhere for the Shelton...

until the mid-1840s when it was closed to make way for the railway, but its name was revived during the 1980s when Racecourse Colliery, a model colliery, was...

of the United Kingdom's richest areas in coal and coal mining, Haydock Collieries had up to 13 collieries working at one time. The last colliery in Haydock...

airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic. The ICAO codes for airports in the United Kingdom (and its Crown Dependencies) begin with the two letters...

Macquarie Street (near Co-op Colliery) to 'deliver' the punters near to the racecourse. The Club made a request to the Colonial government for a new...

the early 1900s, three drift mines made up Trimsaran colliery: Caedean (deepest), Waunhir and the Upper slant; all connected underground and on the surface...

Australia Epsom Oaks, at Epsom Downs Racecourse, Surrey, England; the original Oaks race Kennedy Oaks, at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia Oaks (English...

Tragedies at Gedling Colliery". Nottingham Post. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014. "Gedling Colliery – 20 years since closure"...

only two functional collieries remained by 1968. [citation needed] The last pit to close in the Borough was Bersham Colliery in 1986.The leatherworks in Pentrefelin...

Board. In the 19th century, Gosforth was the location of a number of collieries, including the Gosforth and Coxlodge Collieries. Gosforth Colliery was located...

under the Firth of Forth, dug by coal miners to link the Kinneil colliery on the south side of the Forth with the Valleyfield colliery on the north side...

Manchester Racecourse was a venue for horse racing located at a number of sites around the Manchester area including; Kersal Moor, New Barns, Weaste and...

Grand National used to be held. The race moved to Ayr Racecourse in 1966 after the closure of Bogside Racecourse, where the race had been run over a distance...

The Main Western Railway is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs through the Blue Mountains, and Central West regions. It is 825 kilometres...

traverse the outer suburbs of Newcastle to Maitland. The two coal roads run to the Newcastle coal lines, which serve a number of collieries along the route...

Silverdale Colliery. The line has been mothballed and the bridge demolished. The station master's house survives as a private residence but the station site...

1990s, which contributed to high unemployment in the local area. The final colliery, Prince of Wales Colliery, closed in August 2002. has since been redeveloped...

extension to the West Moreton Colliery at Swanbank was approved, and the line was extended from the West Moreton Mine 3 km to New Swanbank Colliery and opened...

country house. Bersham Colliery was opened in 1864, as the Glan-yr-afon Colliery, located near Rhostyllen. It was operated by the Bersham Coal Company,...

West Riding of Yorkshire. Until the mid-19th century the town had a racecourse of regional importance, linked to the estate at nearby Wentworth. This...

Bestwood Colliery railway station was a former station on the Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Shirebrook line. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory...

in the district. By the time the 1984 Strike began this had decreased to 15, however it still had more collieries than any other district in the country...

based in the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, North East Wales in the United Kingdom. The company RR McReynolds was set up by November 2020, and the deal was...

This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood...

by the sinking of the Dean and Chapter colliery in 1904, but the reliance on this one basic industry was to persist until the 1960s. Even before the big...

celebratory dinner to mark the commercial opening of the Plas Power colliery in 1880, a speaker compared the newly equipped colliery with those 120 years earlier...