Places
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- Pit, Gwent
- Talke Pits, Staffordshire
- Tunnel Pits, Humberside
- Bedwellty Pits, Gwent
- Fenton Pits, Cornwall
- Slay Pits, Yorkshire
- Tre-pit, South Glamorgan
- Bailey Pit, Gwent
- Gore Pit, Essex
- Moss Pit, Staffordshire
- Red Pits, Norfolk
- White Pit, Lincolnshire
- Even Pits, Hereford & Worcester
- Forest Coal Pit, Gwent
- Michaelston-le-Pit, South Glamorgan
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A Little Bit Of Chudleigh History
When a boy, my father, Donald William Stevens, used to show visitors through the Pixie caves for 1/2d per person, with the light from a candle for illumination. After WWII he followed in his father's (William ...Read more
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Nurses Hostel
Started out as isolation hospital for scarlet fever(?) Used as nurses hostel for nurses from Cliveden, they were taken by coach, was at the back of site, backed onto Aspros( later Sara Lee?) factory, they built Westgate School on e ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham by
Memories Of A Young Girl.
Was born in Waterhouses 76 years ago at North Terrace, enjoyed the freedom of playing out in the street and fields . my father worked down the mine like all the other men and boys, my mother stayed home and cooked ...Read more
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Growing Up In Earl Shilton
I have fond memories of Earl Shilton around the 1950s. My first school was in Wood Street where I lived in a little old cottage, now knocked down. I remember celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's coronation at the school, ...Read more
A memory of Earl Shilton in 1950 by
Fatso & Friend
It was 1970 before I found myself working in this enclosure with 'Fatso' the male lion and his mate, whose name I, unfortunately, cannot remember. I began working at Dudley zoo in 1970 as the Giraffe Keeper and was moved to the 'Cat ...Read more
A memory of Dudley in 1970 by
Saturday Morning Pictures At The Odeon
School days were OK but on Saturday morning the walk/run from Croxley Green down into Ricky was always an adventure. We would go down Scots Hill or down the track opposite the church at the bottom of the ...Read more
A memory of Rickmansworth in 1950 by
Talke A Forgotten Village
As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more
A memory of Talke in 1959
Esh Winning Colliery Sawmill
I recall as a young boy the Saw Mill that existed neat Esh Winning Colliery. It was sited just prior to where the Railway siding crossed the road at the bottom of West Terrace. It used to cut pit props which were ...Read more
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Critchlows Corner
The building in view was a Post Office and General Stores, the area was known as "Critchlows Corner" after the name of the family that owned the shop. The post office was the only one in the area. At the age of 10 I would cycle to ...Read more
A memory of Blurton in 1963 by
The Ormerod Family.
Ormerod House passed out of the Ormerod family when the male line died out and the three daughters of the last Ormerod married. Their husbands were John Hargreaves, a local coal mine owner, the Rev William Thursby who became vicar ...Read more
A memory of Burnley in 1900 by
Captions
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Houses for the colliers were built around the pit which dominated their lives.
When this picture was taken, Ryton was a pit village in County Durham with no less than five working pits in the immediate vicinity.
This is the Lower Ninestones china clay pit, with waste being hauled up inclines to older flat-topped tips on the left and newer 'sky tips' on the right.
Even in the late 18th century there were ninety pits in the Forest, with a combined annual output of about 100,000 tons of coal.
To the east of the High Street there were several chalk pits: this was the biggest.
Langley Park is a pit village just off the road between Lanchester and Durham.
There has been a ferry at Farndon for centuries; these days the village offers river users extensive facilities, including a large marina created out of some old gravel pits.
The garderobe pits - the medieval toilets - are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.
In 1960 Ryhope was still very much a pit village, with its own colliery.
One of its more interesting features is what is thought to be an ancient beheading pit.
When the mining industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 127 active pits in County Durham employing 108,000 mineworkers.
Annfield Plain, to the north-west of Durham, was one of several towns to attract industrial development as the number of active pits declined.
Modern buildings have crowded in along the northern part of Betchworth's long village street, but the line of the North Downs and the big chalk pit remain much the same, although the downs are far more
In 1954 the NCB sank its first pit in the country at Lea Hall, Rugeley.
Fern Pit, at the mouth of the Gannel, was owned by generations of Northeys, who also ran the ferry to Crantock, which is in the background on the other side of Crantock Beach.
All along the Nene valley hereabouts are flooded iron ore pits, some of which have been turned into fishing or boating lakes.
China clay from the St Austell pits was brought to the harbour by trains, which carried coal for the gasworks on the return journey.
The garderobe pits—the medieval toilets—are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.
It is just over forty years after photograph No 55427, and doubtless the inspection pits are not quite the selling point they once were!
The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known.
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.
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