Much of the coastal scenery in this area was, until two decades ago, dominated by the spoil heaps and pit head winding gear of Westoe and Whitburn collieries, but these are now gone and the area's natural beauty has been restored.
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The state and central power generation companies are permitted by Government of India with flexible coal linkage swaps from inefficient plants to efficient plants and from plants situated away from coal mines to pit head to minimize cost of coal transportation thus leading to reduction in cost of power
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Under the terrain of Holbrooks ( and surrounding areas ) are several depth ranging of 600 1, 500 metres, these coal seams are known as the Warwickshire Thick, locally extracted to the pit head at Keresley from 1917 and until its eventual closure in 1991.
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A contemporary plan seems to suggest the north and south sections are reversed : the northern line is double track and the tunnel mouth is close to the pit head; it is marked " Tunnel and Rail Road on an inclined Plane for conveying Materials from Mr . Treffry's Canal to the Mine ".
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Following the model of the underground canals that Brindley had developed to extend the Bridgewater Canal into the Worsley coal mines, Fletcher had short underground connecting arms cut at the Wet Earth, Botany Bay and Spindle Point Collieries each terminating at a basin next to the shaft, enabling coal to be loaded directly onto barges at the pit head.
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With Rich Sinclair taking up bass duties, the band released a total of nine cassettes in this period ( Junk Heap on Top of the World; Such Stuff are Made of Thin Air; Pit Head Pressure Cooker Masquerade; Juped-Eyed-Non-Sleeper; Extra Zwaar; Blem-Carr Initiation; The Grain in the Stone ) culminating in their sole visit to the studio to record Our Great Protector which featured re-recorded " professional " versions of a selection of tracks from previous releases.
