Sentence examples for former pit from inspiring English sources

Britain's former pit villages remain – ghostly and unhappy.

The Durham coast road took me through a string of former pit villages.

The two young attackers lived in the former pit village of Edlington in South Yorkshire for only three weeks.

The classic example of the changing face of Britain is the Sports Direct HQ at Shirebrook: a giant warehouse built on the site of a former pit.

I grew up in a former pit village with men and women who spoke openly about just how they'd like to punish Thatcher for crimes against our community.

But that is where Nicolas Sarkozy (above), France's main centre-right candidate and front-runner in the polls, took his campaign to be president this week, when he dropped in on a former pit in Lorraine, in eastern France.

Many of the former pits and factories have been converted into museums of "industrial culture" where old compressors adorn chic cafes.

Set in a former gravel pit, the piece is designed to be seen from two quite different perspectives.

It is a brackish water-filled former clay pit, which had been mined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the manufacture of bricks and tiles.

A further 500,000 visited the world's largest greenhouses while they were being built last year in a former clay pit near St Austell in Cornwall.

Homes around Crystal Lake, which was created from a former gravel pit in the early 80's, also sell for $2 million or more.