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The photograph shows the Cock Pit as it was in 1929.

Since its official opening in Coronation year (1953) by Sir Noel Arkell, this area in the centre of the town has been known as Queens Park.

Coppet Hall's name is believed to be derived from 'coal pit haul': before the laying of the railway track in the 1870s, a tramline existed on which coal was hauled on horse-drawn trucks to

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period.

As a memento to the worst degradation of the coal-mining century, and to the Industrial Revolution in general, this awful scene of the leftover debris is as bad as it gets.

Bishopsteignton was once a rich manor belonging to the Bishops of Exeter; in the 19th century it was producing thousands of tons of ball clay (so called because when dug it tends to ball up like ice cream

The Chalk Pits industrial and historical museum is nearby, next to the main line railway station.

Carclaze started as an open excavation for tin, and it was often visited by tourists in the early 19th century.

Some of the buildings in the village are built from a grey stone quarried from the fuller's earth pits.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit.

In the garden of No 2, on the bottom left of the picture, a plague pit was found with the remains of five skeletons, a legacy of the Black Death in 1348- 9.

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.

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.