SAT R&W W74: Plurals, Possessives and Modifiers — Mixed Practice

Nine were sunk along the same seam between 1861 and 1884, and only two of them ever paid. The rest struck water before they reached coal, and the pumping engines cost more each year than the coal was worth.

Rebuilt after the flood of 1852 with the arches a foot higher than before, The two older piers were left standing and can still be told from the rest by the colour of the stone.

The hospital kept its two wards on different floors and its accounts in different books. The ward was on the ground floor because the beds had to be carried out into the garden in hot weather, and the ledger for it stops abruptly in 1871.

A thatcher works from the eaves upwards, laying each course so that it covers the fixings of the one below, driving the spars in at an angle and the whole surface flat with a wooden bat. The last course at the ridge is the only one that shows any fixing at all.

The bells of the older tower are heavier than by about a hundredweight each, which is why the two rings have never been used together. A single ringer can manage either, but nobody has found a way of matching the speeds.

Brickyards dug their clay from the field next to them and burned it in a kiln on the same site, so the colour of a wall is a fair guide to how far the bricks travelled. The output was sold within four miles, and a red terrace beside a yellow one usually means a change of supplier rather than a change of fashion.