Big Pit Blaenavon in Torfaen, Wales, UK Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Bla

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Big Pit Blaenavon in Torfaen, Wales, UK Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big Pit (Blaenavon) Trust. By 1 February 2001 Big Pit Coal Museum was incorporated into the National Museum and Galleries of Wales as the National Mining Museum of Wales.[2] The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial Revolution. Picture by Richard Williams

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Location: Big Pit Blaenavon Torfaen Wales UK
Photo credit: © Richard Williams / Alamy / Afripics
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