How To Use Pithead In A Sentence
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Given seventeen (ish) Gloucestershire folk needing a tonne each, what pithead price would you have to get to make a profit and undercut the £150 price?
Archive 2005-11-13
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He has also talked about spreading the team's fame among US dog clubs, with Bedlington secure in canine history as the original home of the Bedlington breed of terrier, popularised in the 19th century by local travellers and shown with a coal pithead on the club's badge.
Bedlington Terriers FC receive investment from US billionaire
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More than 50 British warships, survey vessels, training ships and auxiliaries will be joined by more than 120 foreign warships, merchantmen and tall ships in a review formation at Spithead.
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Alongside the headgear at the pithead stood the colliery manager's house.
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There is plenty to see above ground at Caphouse Colliery with retired pit ponies, machinery displays, a steam winder, pithead baths and a 17-acre rural site complete with nature trail and adventure playground plus picnic areas.
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Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners.
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The celebrity steeplejack started building the pithead system with a 70 ft mineshaft to pay tribute to Bolton's history, but got into trouble after neighbours complained.
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Rusting old loco motives; a water tower, chipped by bomb-splinters; a level crossing; pithead gear; a station sign.
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Basic improvements, like the provision of baths at every single pithead in the country, were made - but miners had to wait until nationalisation after the Second World War to see them.
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Across the river the railway track ran up to the pithead.
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Under the 1911 Coal Mines Act, pithead baths had to be provided if two-thirds of the miners voted for them.
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In the deep channels were the Infantry Landing Ships, cross-Channel steamers and small liners with landing craft hanging on their davits; in the shallows were the LCTs loaded with vehicles and tanks and men, moving off towards the eastern entrance of Spithead in great flotillas, shepherded by their MLs.
The Breaking Wave
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Rusting old loco motives; a water tower, chipped by bomb-splinters; a level crossing; pithead gear; a station sign.
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There was Mr Fox and his trucks carting coal from the pitheads and they were held not to be in the coalmining industry.
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The use of beneficiated coal has gained acceptance in steel plants and power plants located at a large distance from pitheads.
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By comparison, coal-fired power plants located at pithead sites get a tariff of 1.70 rupees per kWh while those burning imported coal get up to 2.60 rupees per kWh.
India to Add Renewable Power Ability
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Gear later said that their genesis probably lay in the towering pitheads, woods and girders of his industrial childhood.
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In 1946, just prior to nationalisation, only 14 out of Fife's 34 collieries had pithead baths; after nationalisation they all got them.
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While most of the other mining areas of the country employed an exclusively male workforce, the Lancashire coalfield was one of several areas which had a tradition of employing women on the pithead coal screens.
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But the men who labour far below the last remaining pitheads of Yorkshire are not fuelling the power stations any more.
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More than 50 British warships, survey vessels, training ships and auxiliaries will be joined by more than 120 foreign warships, merchantmen and tall ships in a review formation at Spithead.
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Although an estimated 40% of the buildings could be returned to or maintained in sustainable use, many, particularly in the former industrial heartlands of the north and Midlands, are redundant: there is no obvious new role for pithead baths or winding wheels.
Listed industrial giants decaying, English Heritage warns
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The pithead is nothing like eight miles away Stephen.
Lucy Powell: Guardian Blogging on the Casino
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For more than a hour, the procession made its way through the armada, before returning to Spithead.
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The coal secretary has told us that the coal ministry will be able to spare some of the coal that would be sold through e-auctions, provided the developer picks up the coal from the pithead," P.
India to Divert Some Spot Market Coal to Power Producers
