Walk down a row of houses in a pit village today, and ask where the people's ancestors came from.

More recently, residents in former pit villages have taken it upon themselves to restore, or even create, banners.

Keresley End was a pit village which began in the early 1900s, when the first shaft was created.

Formerly a pit village there are no longer any active coal mines in the area.

It grew up as a pit village and had its own colliery until 1968.

Skinflats was originally a pit village, but no mining has taken place there for many years.

The rest of the district was semi-rural, with numerous former pit villages running into one another.

Into this focus, in many of the pit villages, came new groups, formed by the local women.

Some pit villages, such as Grimethorpe, are almost entirely composed of original council housing.

I wonder how many people there are on £50k a year living in social housing in the pit villages?