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 ...

Without places like Big Pit, and what is now the Rhondda Heritage Park museum in another valley to the south-west, Wales as we know it would not exist. Certainly, Cardiff would not have grown in ...