Some were drawers before, and are now
become colliers.
It is
inhabited principally by colliers, sailors, and fishermen.
The children are badly off at school; there is no appointed teacher - an
old well-informed collier
gives lessons to young ones.
Collier brigs
from innumerable tyne coal staithes.
By the 1860s most coal carried to london came by
steam colliers, with sailing vessels picking up the pieces.
Collier's daughter, innocent, sweet seventeen shall i tell you the story of nellie?
Collier named
curtis as he walked on the bowling green.
It is one of a few small villages in the parish, chiefly
occupied by colliers.
Young colliers
begin work at six years of age " ( ibid.
Collier population
were freed from their servitude.
As the
sailing colliers
tended to arrive en masse on a favorable wind, the river became clogged.
Colliers ' children, out of 150 now at an age for instruction, attend.
At the height of its production, coal was brought directly to wandsworth from newcastle on the gas
works own steam colliers.
There are
few colliers
from other parts of the parish listed in the records at this time.
Collier fleet.
Colliers employed
in the mines of the parish.
In those days it was a place of work with
small colliers
beaching themselves ( deliberately ) as the tide ebbed to off-load coal.
Collier ships
were loaded in one week, including one from cardigan.
We
have about 500 colliers
working under this arrangement, with which they are quite satisfied.
Colliers boys
sitting on the ground holding their safety lamps.
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