Big Pit, Blaenafon

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195

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Big Pit is situated in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. It was a working coal mine, near to the preserved Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway. The mine was closed in 1980 but reopened for visitors in 1983. It is now preserved for visitors by the National Museum Wales. Big Pit National Coal Museum is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Big Pit is now a World Heritage Site.

The pit was first worked in 1860, it was the first shaft in Wales large enough to allow two tramways, hence it's name "Big Pit". During the 1870s the shaft was deepened to 293 feet. Big Pit provided employment for 1,122 people by 1908, but the number of people working at Big Pit gradually decreased, and by 1970 the workforce only numbered 494. It closed on February 2, 1980.

Big Pit was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize in 2005, the prestigious prize was awarded to Big Pit for it's track record of imagination, innovation and excellence.

Blaenafon was also the place of the world's first railway viaduct. In 2001, the Channel 4 archaeology programme "Time Team" came to Blaenavon to find the lost viaduct. On the third day of excavation Time Team managed to uncover the to of the viaduct but because of safety issues they were unable to dig any further.

You can read more about Blaenafon's lost viaduct on the Time Team website here ››

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