Our Bygone Burnley video article today takes us to Hapton, the location of one of the borough’s oldest cotton mills, a castle ...

A once thriving village is now run down and deserted according to locals, with barren streets punctuated with cans of Carling and Strongbow. Residents of Maerdy, in south Wales, think they have been ...

One of the great appeals of the county game is provided when it spreads its net beyond the big cities, landing in some weird ...

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday its forces had taken control of the village of Rozlyv in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the focal point of their steady westward advance through the ...

A brass band is set to deliver a performance in Bury St Edmunds. Grimethorpe Colliery Band will take to the stage at The Apex in the town on Saturday, April 5, at 7.30pm. Audiences can expect a ...

But when both Maerdy Colliery and Tower Colliery closed some 17 years ago, the area experienced a devastating downturn. Retired printer Tony Evans told WalesOnline how life is now unrecognisable ...

"It was heartbreaking. I'm born and bred Maerdy. The colliery meant everything to the people here. When it closed I went to Tower Colliery (the last colliery to close in Wales in 2008). Those were ...

HEARTBROKEN” residents have told how their once thriving mining village is now a “barren wasteland” where everyone is on ...

“It was heartbreaking. I’m born and bred Maerdy. The colliery meant everything to the people here. When it closed I went to Tower Colliery (the final colliery to close in Wales in 2008). Those were ...

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