The Big Pit museum is a 140-year-old former coal mine in Blaenavon, in south Wales and part of Museum Wales, a government-backed body which is bound to follow a Labour directive to set “the ...

Big Pit in Wales has been named the best free attraction in the UK and it's easy to see why - it's an incredible, moving and important place that tells the story of modern Britain and the people who w ...

Winding gear can be seen at the Big Pit in Wales, and at the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery, West Yorkshire.

Ministers should “draw out” lessons from Thatcher-era coal mine closures in the move ... whose great-grandfather worked in a pit at Cwmcarn, South Wales, said the administration led by ...