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It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch.

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.

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.

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.

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

As the name of the colliery would indicate this pit is actually in the Ely Valley and at the time of the Frith photograph would be one of the few still in full production.

mixture of a rural and industrial landscapes; to the left, corn is stacked up in stooks ready for harvesting, while to the right, behind the houses, a chimney and the huge shape of the spoil tip of the pit

An iron works was opened in 1837, but it was the discovery two years later of ironstone deposits at nearby Shotley Bridge, and the opening of coal pits during the 1840s, that sparked off the town's growth

Copper (and also, to a lesser degree, lead) have been mined here since Roman times, so that the whole area of hillside behind the town is said to have dozens of pits, caves and tunnels.

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

This beautiful sunken garden has been created in a disused gravel pit.

But river traffic at this point has now been greatly increased with the opening of the vast Penton Hook Marina in a flooded gravel pit on the south bank, which is accessed from just below this lock.

The sinking of the Fitzwilliam and the South Kirkby pits in the 1870s led to a huge rise in the population; the town was rebuilt with hundreds of back-to-back terraced houses.