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Bathing has not always been the family pastime it is today.

The rocky cliff faces are scored and pitted by wind and waves, causing sizeable blowing holes and fissures.

It was once one of Farnham's hop- growing villages, and poles for the bines can be seen on the far left.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

Not only lime but also some building stone was formerly quarried in the huge Betchworth chalk pit.

Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and coal and ironstone pits

One of its more interesting features is what is thought to be an ancient beheading pit.

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

These do not look like young of the pit ponies and nor are they working horses.

As we have seen even the smallest colliery village wherever it may be in the Rhondda Valleys has its own park.

New Pond was dug in the 14th century (Upper Pond is an old brick pit) and was once a popular bathing place.

The present building was largely the work of the Victorian Colonel Waugh, who developed the island by opening clay pits and potteries in its wildest corners.

These included Unwins print works, a tannery, the gravel pits, and three laundries.

Standing in the upper Douglas Valley, Wigan was once a market town, but by the mid 19th century it was a major centre for Lancashire's coal industry.

Local pit manager Sir William Garforth, who donated 250 books, opened this Carnegie Library on 29 May 1907.

It also had nearby coal-pits, which sent out some of their produce from the beach here.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.

The builder, Wade Brown, was a local quarry owner; woods have now overgrown the local pits and quarries cut into the sides of Bathford Hill.

The lady is looking into one of the numerous prehistoric crop storage pits that had been excavated by the antiquarian C W Dymond a few years previously.

The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known

Coal and limestone were once brought from Wales, and pit props were sent there.

had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and coal and ironstone pits

The village of Winster is one of the most complete 18th-century villages in Derbyshire, founded on the wealth won from the numerous lead mines which still pit the fields which surround it.