Utterley Utterley Utterley is the name of the small fictional town in Lancashire, England that was the main setting for the 1980s and 1990s Granada TV series "Brass". Utterley was portrayed as a typical Lancastrian mining and mill town in the 1930s. The town was controlled by Bradley Hardacre who had risen from a childhood spent in the town's workhouse (which later became the Cottage Hospital) to owning through his company Hardacre International most of the town's industry (mine, mill, munitions factory, shipyard, crutch factory and aircraft factory) and also it would appear all or at least most of the property
Coal mining in the United Kingdom at ordinary combustion temperatures (i.e. for the oxidation of carbon - see fossil fuels). The last deep coal mine in the UK closed on 18 December 2015. Twenty-six open cast mines still remain open and Banks Mining said in 2018 they planned to start mining a new site in County Durham. The United Kingdom's onshore coal resources occur in rocks of the Carboniferous age, some of which extend under the North Sea. The carbon content of the bituminous coal present in most of the coalfields is 86% to 88%. Britain's coalfields are associated with Northumberland and Durham, North and South