10 years on since Britain's last deep coal mine closed in Yorkshire
Today marks ten years since Britain's last deep coal mine closed its doors for the final time
Kellingley Colliery, near Knottingley employed over 2000 people at it's peak, with many of those employees from West Yorkshire.
The mine, nicknamed the 'Big K' opened in April 1965, it was the last pit to close on the 18 December 2015. It's after cheap imports and a shift away from fossil fuels meant it was no longer viable.
We have been back to visit the former site, which is now industrial units and a methane plant with it's last manager.
Shaun McLoughlin spoke to us exclusively and said: "When I started at Kellingley in 1977 it employed 2,500 people. So a major employer in the area and if you times that by the number of colliery's, you can see the coal mine industry was a really big employer in the area."
Shaun said it's disappointing to see the legacy of coal mining towns have been negatively impacted by the closures.
He said: "Look at Castleford town centre now and Pontefract town centre, from what it was 20, 30 years ago, thriving hubs where the coal miners had lots of cash to spend in these towns.
"And now, they're really run down, Knottingley which we'd of drove through day, another run down area."
In Wakefield, the National Coal Mining Museum has opened an exhibition marking the ten year anniversary. The last coal to be extracted from there is among the things on display.