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5 mines beginning with Q, of 3568.

MineRegionWorkedCommodities
Quarrelton Colliery
Pits on one of Britain's thickest coal seams, where two men lived ten days on scraps of oatcake after a flood.
Renfrewshire by 1634 Coal
Quarry Level
A Glyn valley level where a police baton charge in the 1926 lockout led to Arthur Jenkins, father of Roy Jenkins, going to prison.
Torfaen c. 1912–1943 Coal
Quarter Colliery
The Lanarkshire pit where eleven died in 1841 — four of them rescuers — and where the teenage Keir Hardie drove ponies and then hewed coal.
South Lanarkshire By 1841, possibly earlier–1930 Coal
Quay Foot Quarry
Green slate for Victorian Keswick, and a photograph of the quarry taken in 1857.
Cumbria Working by the mid-19th century–after 1930 Slate
Quinta Colliery
A border colliery whose tramway to the canal fed into the Glyn Valley line.
Shropshire c. 1850s–early 1900s Coal

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