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Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period. It was later used as a duck decoy. The ducks were drawn into the decoy by the decoy man's dog.

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.

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.

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.

Bishopsteignton was once a rich manor belonging to the Bishops of Exeter; in the 19th century it was producing thousands of tons of ball clay (so called because when dug it tends to ball up like ice cream

The Chalk Pits industrial and historical museum is nearby, next to the main line railway station.

Carclaze started as an open excavation for tin, and it was often visited by tourists in the early 19th century. Only later did it become a china clay working.

Some of the buildings in the village are built from a grey stone quarried from the fuller's earth pits.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit. The churchyard contains the graves of several prisoners.

In the garden of No 2, on the bottom left of the picture, a plague pit was found with the remains of five skeletons, a legacy of the Black Death in 1348- 9.

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

Most of the Rhondda was deep pit mining but there is evidence, in the right foreground, of some open cast mining on a small scale.

However, people have always lived here, and the hillside is covered with the remains of bell pits - ancient open-cast mines where people have dug for coal from the 13th century.

A few doors up is the distinctive facade of a small cinema, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

The banks of the Bure here are pitted with artificial basins, where boats lie up in safety during the long months of winter.

As at Tipton and Wednesbury, the 30 ft seam of Thick Coal was near the surface at Bilston.Though there is evidence for coal pits at the time of Edward I, Bilston came into its own during the 19th century

This beautiful sunken garden has been created in a disused gravel pit. Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

The Congregational Church stood to the east of the police station on the south side of Carshalton Road, until it was demolished in 1976 as part of a scheme of road improvements.

Trees now obscure this view, but the surrounding heathland has become even more scarred by clay pits, sand extraction and a brickworks.

This beautiful sunken garden has been created in a disused gravel pit. Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

A few doors up is the distinctive façade of a small cinema, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known.