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This is coal mining country, and despite all the 1980s and 1990s pit closures and the grassed- over slag heaps that dot west Nottinghamshire, Harworth still has its colliery.
The building with the tall chimneys fronts the Alton Road, and is built into the cliff of the chalk pit. Dating from c1730, it was originally a beer house, the Sign of the Castle.
The sides are covered with the remains of bell pits, ancient open-cast mines where people have dug for coal since the 13th century.
This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.
This view looks towards one of the entrances to the series of underground canals that extended to the Duke's pits at Walkden.
The perfect little port with its floating dock is surrounded by cottages, and the outer harbour is enclosed by breakwater piers.
Kinsley was the centre of conflict in 1905 when a strike led to the eviction of 100 pit families.
The tunnel is 3075 yards (2811 metres) long and was a considerable feat of engineering when it opened in 1805.
A few doors up is the distinctive facade of a small cinema, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known.
The rickety-looking oriel window on its timber props and horned sash window frames are Victorian additions to the centuries-old corner house, which was a shop at the time this photograph
The Thames and Severn Canal came this way, and the route of the old towpath can still be walked for considerable sections; but it is the pits left by extensive gravel extraction that have been
This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.
They are flooded gravel pits and one, Stockers Lake, is a nature reserve. In 1921 Batchworth Lake, being nearest the town, was already used for recreation with rowing boats and yachts.
It was bought by Harris's to store sawdust for smoking their bacon; their supplies came from W E Beint & Sons Ltd, whose sawmills at Studley were famous for making elm coffin boards and pit props for
It is the early days of motoring, and the hotels are clearly competing against each other with the facilities on offer, including inspection pits!
Walk a short distance from the hamlet and marvel at numerous waterfalls, disused pits and the course of the Roman road through Combs Wood.
This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.
The prosperous Georgian feel of the town originates with the presence of the castle and with its role as a market town and agricultural centre.
Also in that period massive pits surrounded Altofts, and the Church of St Mary Magdalene (1890) has a window memorial to the 32 men and boys (and 53 horses) killed in the explosion at the West Riding
On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.
