In its heyday Coventry Colliery was producing a million tonnes of coal a year and employing more than 1,000 miners.
The first shafts were sunk in 1911 with mining starting in earnest in 1917.
Housing was built for miners at Keresley Newland and Keresley End along with a social club. A branch line from the main railway line was added in 1919.
By 1939 the mine was producing a million tonnes of coal a year.
By the early 1980s there were more than 1,000 miners employed at the pit.
In 1984 1,200 miners went on strike as part of UK wide action by the National Union of Mineworkers against colliery closures. The action lasted a year with 300 miners still on strike when the dispute ended.
The strike split the community and even families as some miners went back to work crossing picket lines manned by their still striking colleagues.
The dispute is credited with resulting in the closure of the pit. But the closure was also part of a national trend and strikes were only part of the picture.
Mines were closing all over the country as a result of the discovery of cheap north sea oil and gas and the availability of cheaper imported coal.
Coventry Colliery closed in 1991 then reopened with new owners. The mine closed for good in 1996 one of the last to cease operation in the Coventry and Warwickshire area.
The shafts were filled and covered. The colliery had its own branch railway line which is now disused.
Industrial park the ProLogis Park is now on the Coventry Colliery site dominated by a massive distribution warehouse.
Coventry Colliery Social Club has been demolished.
The pit wheels were dismantled with one of the old wheels mounted in concrete at the entrance to the industrial park.