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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.
Eastry was home to many miners who worked down the east Kent pits.
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.
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.
