Big Pit: National Coal Museum
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Big Pit National Coal Museum is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, South Wales.
A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales.
The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial revolution.
Located adjacent to the preserved Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Big Pit is part of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, a World Heritage Site, and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
For some years before closure, the mine had been identified as being a possible heritage attraction and a working group was set up made up of the National Coal Board, local government, the National Museum, the Welsh Development Agency and the Welsh Office.
Soon after the pit closed, Torfaen Borough Council bought the site for £1 and it was given to a charitable trust called the Big Pit (Blaenavon) Trust to manage the conversion to a heritage museum.
The initial development cost £1.5 million with funding from the Welsh Tourist Board, the European Regional Development Fund, the borough council and Gwent County Council.
The mine reopened for visitors in 1983 and created 71 jobs.
A number of buildings were subsequently given protected status at the site.
The Powder House, Saw mill Office Electrical Workshop, Pit Head Building, Headframe and Tram Circuit, and Miners' Bathhouse were each given Grade II Listed Building status on 2 September 1995.
The Powder House building was used to store explosives needed for mine work during the time Big Pit was an active mine.
The mine is covered by HM Inspectorate of Mines regulations, because it is still classed as a working pit.
Visitors wear a plastic hard hat, safety lamp, and a battery on a waist belt which weighs 5 kilograms .
Visitors must also carry on their belt a rebreather, which in case of emergency will filter foul air for approximately one hour, giving a chance for survival and escape.
Before taking the 50 minute underground tour 90 metres below ground, contraband must be surrendered, such as anything containing a dry cell battery from watches to mobile phones.
Automatic gas monitoring systems are discreetly positioned around the tunnels, as are emergency telephone systems.
Some safety beams were monitored around the area.
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Big Pit is a real coal mine and one of Britain's leading mining museums. Enjoy a multi-media tour of a modern coal mine with a virtual miner in the Mining Galleries, exhibitions in the Pithead Baths and Historic colliery buildings open to the public for the first time. All this AND the world-famous Underground Tour. Go 300 feet underground with a real miner and see what life was like for the thousands of men who worked at the coal face!
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Big Pit National Coal Museum
Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, South Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales. The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial revolution.
Located adjacent to the preserved Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Big Pit is part of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, a World Heritage Site, and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
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Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, South Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales. The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial revolution.
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Pre-Tour Slideshow
Visitors can see this slideshow of the underground tour, in the lamproom as they are queueing.
Our underground tours last for about an hour and twenty minutes, and are led by former mine workers. Tours should be booked at Reception, and some tours are available to book by telephone in advance. Contact 01924 848806 for more details.
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The Big Pit is one of the last coal mines that has been kept in running order and if you are at all interested in our mining ancestry this is the go to pit. Parking is only £3 and entrance to the
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mine is free as is access to all the pithead workings including the orge,stables,locomotives,and lamp room etc,. The trip down the mine takes about I hour and and commentary is given a former miner ( preferably Stevie and not Pete). A superb day out for all the family.
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Take a unique underground tour of a real coalmine, where hundreds of men, women and children once worked to extract the precious mineral that stoked furnaces and lit the household fires of the world.
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Travel blogs from Big Pit:
- ... I felt somewhat better in the morning so I rejoined the group and we were off to Big Pit which is a real underground coal mine We all donned caps with lamp lights and decended the 300 feet into the dank dark depths ...
- ... Day 2 was not a good day for me we spent so long on the bus!!! we stoped only 2 times the first was for the Big Pit which is a old mine which we went down the shaft and had a really cool welsh miner tell us about the history and what happens down there ...
- ... Then, there's a big pit at the bottom, which has no obvious way of cleaning out the poo ...
- ... We were making our way to the Breacon Beacons and the Big Pit (one of the last coal mines in Wales ) The countryside was breathtaking all the way down, green and lush ...
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