Blaenavon Big Pit & Ironworks
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.
Blaenavon Ironworks is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon in Wales. The ironworks was of crucial importance in the development of the ability to use cheap, low quality, high sulphur iron ores worldwide. The ironworks is on the outskirts of Blaenavon, in the borough of Torfaen, within the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, a World Heritage Site.
Blaenavon Ironworks video
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape - UNESCO World Heritage Site
A tour of the UNESCO World Heritage listed industrial landscape around Blaenavon in southern Wales. This small area of coal mines, ironworks, towns and mills was one a heartland of the industrial revolution - at one point, 30% of the world's coal was mined in southern Wales!
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blaenavon iron works around camp 6th aug 2016
here's the final compilation of clips from around the camp of the war event. it includes, the houses, a fire engine, russians, germans and british soldiers, plus a policeman etc.
Battle of Blaenavon Ironworks
SWish Camping Run to Blaenavon Ironworks.
June bank holiday weekend 2012.
Blaenavon Ironworks VE Day Concert
VE Day at the Ironworks
Blaenavon Male Voice Choir and Blaenavon Town Band helped the locals celebrate Victory in Europe with a performance at the Cadw managed Blaenavon Ironworks.
A small crowd gathered to hear the choir and band perform on a grey Sunday in the town. British and Welsh flags flew on the railings and the crowd were in good spirits as all came together to celebrate Victory in Europe and the end of World War 2.
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Please donate to the film project and help us tell the story of how Blaenavon's Male Voice Choir has gone hand in hand with the town's industrial past - as have many choirs across Wales. It's important we document these stories so that we can preserve the history and heritage of Blaenavon, its choir and choirs across Wales for future generations to enjoy.
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Diwrnod VE yn y Gwaith Haearn
Blaenafon Côr Meibion a Band Tref Blaenafon helpu'r bobl leol yn dathlu Buddugoliaeth yn Ewrop gyda pherfformiad yn y Cadw a reolir Gwaith Haearn Blaenafon.
Mae torf bach a gasglwyd i glywed y côr a band yn perfformio ar ddydd Sul llwyd yn y dref. Baneri Prydeinig a Chymreig hedfan ar y rheiliau a oedd y dorf mewn hwyliau da ag y daeth i gyd at ei gilydd i ddathlu Buddugoliaeth yn Ewrop a diwedd yr Ail Ryfel Byd 2.
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Os gwelwch yn dda roi i brosiect ffilm ac yn ein helpu i adrodd stori llaw sut mae Côr Meibion Blaenafon wedi mynd yn llaw â'r gorffennol diwydiannol y dref - fel y mae llawer o gorau ledled Cymru. Mae'n bwysig ein bod yn dogfennu straeon hyn fel y gallwn gadw hanes a threftadaeth Blaenafon, ei chôr a chorau ar draws Cymru er mwyn i genedlaethau'r dyfodol eu mwynhau.
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Blaenavon Town Tour part1
A tour of Blaenavon's historic buildings
Blaenavon
Visit To Blaenavon inc Iron Works / Big Pit / High Level Station / Blaenavon Area
ww2 display and battle at Blaenavon ironworks ( video )
great day out in Blaenavon ironworks for the ww2 weekend.
penallta colliery 2016
Whats left of penallta colleiry
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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, in and around Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, was inscribed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.
The Blaenavon Ironworks, now a museum, was a major centre of iron production using locally mined or quarried iron ore, coal and limestone.
Raw materials and products were transported via horse-drawn tramroads, canals and steam railways.
The Landscape includes protected or listed monuments of the industrial processes, transport infrastructure, workers' housing and other aspects of early industrialization in South Wales.
The Blaenavon Ironworks, now managed by Cadw, operated from 1789 to 1902. Today there are remains of six blast furnaces, cast houses, boiler rooms, engine houses, the water balance tower used to raise and lower railway trucks, and workers' housing around Stack Square.
The remains of the furnaces from the late 18th century and the 19th century are well preserved.
Other elements include the 1839 water balance tower, two casting houses, ruined kilns, the base of the massive chimney of the blowing engine, the cast-iron structure that carried the blast pipes to the furnaces and ruins of workers' housing.
The Big Pit was the last deep coal mine to remain operational in the area.
The surface buildings, winding gear and underground workings are still in excellent condition.
The Big Pit coal mine, now managed by Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, was worked from around 1860 until 1980.
The original pithead buildings have been preserved, including the head frame, winding engine and baths.
The Big Pit Colliery was reopened as a museum in 1983.
Visitors may take an underground tour.
In 2005 it won the Gulbenkian Prize for museum of the year.
Extant buildings from the early industrial period include worker's housing terraces, St. Peter's Church (1804), St. Peter's School (1816) and the Blaenavon Workmen's Hall (1894).
Other elements of the Industrial Landscape are the mines and quarries from which coal, iron ore, fire clay and limestone were extracted.
There are traces of horse-drawn railways, tunnels and inclines that were used to carry iron ore, coal and limestone to the ironworks, and to carry pig iron to the Garnddyrys Forge.
Wrought iron was taken from the forge to Llanfoist on the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal for transport to other parts of Britain and the world.
There are walks and trails along which visitors may explore the Landscape.
Waymarked footpaths follow the tracks of the earliest iron railways.
The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway was once an important transport facility.
The steam railway has been restored and has a station in the centre of the town.
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WW1 DISPLAY AT BLAENAVON IRONWORKS
ww1 living history group display and look around the ironworks. . great day and a well done to the organisers. the series coal house was filmed here.
ww2 day at Blaenavon ironworks ( in pictures )
fantastic job by all at the display. great day again
Travel Vlog : England - Blaenavon World Heritage Site Promo Video 2014
Travel Vlog in England - Blaenavon World Heritage Site Promo Video 2014
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Blaenavon World Heritage Site Promo Video 2014
from AeroPerspective:
This film is the culmination of almost a years work and takes the viewer on a journey around the World Heritage Site at Blaenavon. It features many of the aspects of this historical industrial centre that are waiting to be discovered by visitors to the town. There is so much to be explored and this media presentation provides a taste of what can be found to satisfy every walk of life... whether revisiting the past or simply enjoying the splendour of a landscape reclaimed by nature. There really is something here for everybody and everything needed to make a visit complete can be found within the town and surrounding locality.
From the air the area is simply breathtaking. On a clear day the views from the high ground surrounding the town are magnificent... this really is the heart of 'Gods Country'. Together with the aerial film content being produced for the Forgotten Landscapes Project, AeroPerspective is privileged to be giving the world a glimpse of this very understated but vastly important site that sits alongside other major UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world.
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Blaenavon Town Tour part2
A tour of the historic buildings in Blaenavon.
defence of blaenavon war event battle display 6th aug 2017
filmed at the iron works, this is the first battle display of the ww2 event with the germans vs british soldiers.
The Big Pit, Blaenavon.
If you are in South Wales pay the Big Pit a visit.
Hidden Depths - The life of Blaenafon Miners - Part 1 of 3
In this 30 minute documentary documentary Neil Kinnock explores the amazing lives of the miners of Big Pit Blaenafon