| The coalfields have given way to unemployment queues, night watchmen's sheds and minimum wage component assembly jobs. |
| In the west are the Ruhr coalfields, while in the east there are large lignite deposits. |
| The union's refusal to defend jobs has left mining communities throughout the Appalachian coalfields in a depression-like state. |
| People here know there is a lot of ill health in the coalfields area, but the extent of it shocked everyone. |
| A wave of revolutionary fervour swept across Europe affecting the Fife coalfields powerfully. |
| During the last three centuries coal from the Yorkshire coalfields has been one of the world's major sources of power. |
