An 8 year-old boy smashes a fence for bonfire wood in a street of vandalised houses in the ex-mining village of Grimethorpe in South Yorkshire. An 8 year-old boy smashes a fence for bonfire wood in a street of vandalised houses in the former pit village of Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, which has undergone serious decline since its colliery closed in 1993, and where many ex-miners' houses are empty.