It's hard to believe that 1,300 people used to work where I'm now standing, almost alone, on a freezing hillside on the fringes of a mountain range. It's almost the exact point where the densely ...

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Big Pit, the national coal museum in Torfaen, has been named the best in Wales and the second best in the UK in a list compiled by GoldCo, which ranked galleries and museums based on Tripadvisor ...

making it the first mine in Wales big enough to allow two tramways.” At its peak, in 1923, there were 1,399 men working at Big Pit producing coal including house, steam, ironside, and fireclay.

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