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Walk the immaculate streets of the Waverley estate in South Yorkshire and you could, almost, be in any new-build British housing development. With neat brick houses, solar-panelled roofs and gleaming cars on driveways, everything looks modern and well-maintained. On a weekday lunchtime, the only noise is the low growl of construction: more homes being built on the 740-acre site.
The Olive Lane development will be built in Waverley on the site of the former Orgreave colliery.
For 40 years, Roger Tiley has photographed mining communities as their way of life disappears.
For 40 years, Roger Tiley has photographed mining communities as their way of life disappears.
'Expecting to hear the truth of how my girls had died, I was horrified to hear the police making statement after statement about drunk, ticketless Liverpool fans being to blame,' writes Jenni Hicks.