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It is just over forty years after photograph No 55427, and doubtless the inspection pits are not quite the selling point they once were!

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.

Bathing has not always been the family pastime it is today. 'Tommy's Pit', built at the end of the breakwater, was strictly men only, while women used Crooklets beach, then named Maer Beach.

The village is noted for its granite quarries, which furnished stone for the Duke of Wellington's sarcophagus in St Paul's Cathedral.

Many men found work at nearby pits, including Barlborough on the outskirts of the village.

As a memento to the worst degradation of the coal-mining century, and to the Industrial Revolution in general, this awful scene of the leftover debris is as bad as it gets.

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

Not only lime but also some building stone was formerly quarried in the huge Betchworth chalk pit. It had its own narrow gauge railway, which is visible 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.

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.

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

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. This one looks more suited to the youngsters of the area with its swings and slide.

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

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.

The photograph shows the Cock Pit as it was in 1929. The post box is a unique Victorian model dated 1856. The stocks are thought to have come from Clewer in the late 1920s.

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.

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 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

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.

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