The picture below is 4 photos scanned and pasted together. I took them from the top of Kiveton pit's waste heap (I'm not sure how high it was back then but I'd guess 2 or 3 hundred feet) in the winter of 1982/83. At that time the miner's strike was still a year away. The snow gives good relief to a scene that's changed massively in the intervening 20 odd years. Most notable changes are that the pit has gone, the waste heaps (tips) have been landscaped, and there has been much house building on open fields.

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• The circles on the bottom right are on the Hard Lane sewage works - it's now disused and derelict.
• The pond in the middle is the old 'Tunnel Top' where local anglers fished - now filled in when the waste heap was landscaped after the pit shut. I remember an old ex national serviceman telling me how he chucked a Luger pistol into it that he'd bought back from Germany in the 1950s - now presumably a rusted lump buried under 50 feet of shale and mud.
• The pit closed in 1993 and is now all but erased from the map, apart from the old pit offices and baths (both listed buildings).

It's impossible to get this high over kiveton on foot now as the waste heap has been landscaped and much reduced in height.

I took a 360 degree panoramic series of photos with the rest of Kiveton plus Woodall, Harthill, and Wales on the horizon - if I have the chance I'll scan and stitch the lot together some time soon.

The modern (Jan 2007) view is shown in these 3 huge images. Click on an image to get the full size version in a new browser window (you may have to full size the images in the browser and scroll around inside it).

South - Harthill/Woodall/M1 motorway 3 Meg image

North - Wales/Kiveton5 Meg image

Kiveton/Old Station 3.5 Meg image