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Lights out in Britain for underground coal mining
Though open cast mining will continue, Kellingley's closing ends an enterprise spanning over two centuries that helped make the country an industrial power
Published Sun, Nov 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Knottingley, England
TENS of thousands of British coal miners have lost their jobs in recent decades, during the steep decline of an industry that stoked the nation's industrial rise, sustained it through two world wars and once employed more than one million people.
Chris Jamieson will be one of the very last.
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