The coal mines employed thousands of residents over the years until their eventual closure, but the memories still remain.
From record-breaking shifts, to miners galas and strikes, our photographs capture it all.
Have a look through and take yourselves back to the sixties through to the nineties.
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13. Goldthorpe Colliery Pickets
1984 Miners strike - Goldthorpe Colliery Pickets at Blidworth Colliery Photo: JPI Media
14. 1984 Strikes
14/05/1984 National Union of Miners president Arthur Scargill at the head of a march of striking miners, which left Mansfield Leisure Centre in Nottinghamshire. Most of the UK's 190,000 miners were soon embroiled in a daily routine of picketing outside collieries, most of which had ground to a halt. During the strike, an estimated 20,000 people were injured or admitted to hospital, while around 200 served time in prison or custody. Photo: PA
15. Mansfield Colliery
Mansfield Colliery March 1988 Miners have a drink in the welfare after their last shift - do you reconise anyone here? Photo: JPI Media
16. Mansfield Colliery
Mansfield Colliery -1988 Miner Robert Gripton chats to the press at the end of his shift Photo: JPI Media