Part of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site is the Big Pit National Coal Museum. This was a working coal mine from 1880 until 1980. In 1983 it opened as a a place that the public can visit in order to experience the industry that was pivotal to the industrial revolution and part of the life of all who lived in South Wales. The pit was closely connected to the Blaenavon iron works which is also open to the public. Visitors to Big Pit can go down the mine, explore the ancillary buildings of the site and see exciting audio visual displays. And they can also see some of the detritus associated with mining that was, presumably, left where it was when the pit closed; such as these mine trucks and bogeys.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Sony DSC-RX100
