Caption For Wales, Wales Road C1955
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.
Caption For Berkeley, The Old House C1955
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
Caption For South Cerney, The Water Park C1960
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
Caption For Calne, The Green And Church C1965
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
Caption For Goathland, Beck Hole C1960
Walk a short distance from the hamlet and marvel at numerous waterfalls, disused pits and the course of the Roman road through Combs Wood.
Caption For Altofts, Horse And Jockey 1959
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