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Houses for the colliers were built around the pit which dominated their lives.

This is the Lower Ninestones china clay pit, with waste being hauled up inclines to older flat-topped tips on the left and newer 'sky tips' on the right.

When this picture was taken, Ryton was a pit village in County Durham with no less than five working pits in the immediate vicinity.

Even in the late 18th century there were ninety pits in the Forest, with a combined annual output of about 100,000 tons of coal.

To the east of the High Street there were several chalk pits: this was the biggest. It lies to the south of Carshalton Road, and east of the Congregational Church.

Langley Park is a pit village just off the road between Lanchester and Durham. The road to the left goes to Quebec and Cornsay Colliery.

There has been a ferry at Farndon for centuries; these days the village offers river users extensive facilities, including a large marina created out of some old gravel pits.

In 1960 Ryhope was still very much a pit village, with its own colliery. In 1967 Ryhope, along with Silksworth, East Herrington, South Hylton, and Castletown, was incorporated into Sunderland.

The garderobe pits - the medieval toilets - are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

The garderobe pits—the medieval toilets—are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

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

Eastry was home to many miners who worked down the east Kent pits. The mother of the actress Susan Hampshire once lived here too.

In 1954 the NCB sank its first pit in the country at Lea Hall, Rugeley.The colliery opened in July 1960; most of its output went by conveyor direct to nearby Rugeley, a power station.

When the mining industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 127 active pits in County Durham employing 108,000 mineworkers.

Annfield Plain, to the north-west of Durham, was one of several towns to attract industrial development as the number of active pits declined.

Modern buildings have crowded in along the northern part of Betchworth's long village street, but the line of the North Downs and the big chalk pit remain much the same, although the downs are far more

In 1954 the NCB sank its first pit in the country at Lea Hall, Rugeley. The colliery opened in July 1960; most of its output went by conveyor direct to nearby Rugeley, a power station.

Fern Pit, at the mouth of the Gannel, was owned by generations of Northeys, who also ran the ferry to Crantock, which is in the background on the other side of Crantock Beach.

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.

All along the Nene valley hereabouts are flooded iron ore pits, some of which have been turned into fishing or boating lakes.

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

China clay from the St Austell pits was brought to the harbour by trains, which carried coal for the gasworks on the return journey.