A search has started for former miners to help mark 60 years since the closure of the last colliery in South Gloucestershire.

Local history enthusiasts and community groups are planning an exhibition about the Frog Lane pit, which shut in 1949.

They are keen for ex-miners or their relatives to contribute insights into what it was like to work in the industry.

There are two roadshows taking place for people who lived near the mine and have memories it working to tell historians about it.

The first is tomorrow night, with the second at the end of next month.

"Frog Lane 1949-2009 will be a major event next year and we need people's help to make it the biggest possible," said Yate councillor Chris Willmore.

"We would especially be interested in meeting anyone with any pictures, documents or artefacts linked to life in the pit and Coalpit Heath during that time."

Organisers want to display photographs to show life in the pit.

Flash photographs were normally banned at collieries because of the risk of explosion but the Frog Lane mine was gas free, allowing miners and pit ponies to be pictured at the coal face.

Thursday's roadshow is in the Miner's Institute, Badminton Road, Coalpit Heath, from 7pm-9pm.

The second will be at the same venue on November 29 from noon to 5pm.