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Cold water dipping is now so popular at Keeper’s Pond that the site has attracted its own travelling sauna.
Bidders are being offered the chance to buy a large tract of land steeped in Wales' industrial ... every year and boasts the Big Pit mining museum, the town's former ironworks, and the heritage ...
You’ll also check out some of the best things to do in Wales. I’ve even added some suggestions ... Then, drive just under an hour to Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon. Go on a guided tour and ...
A new steelworks opened at Forgeside, while demand for steam coal grew, placing south Wales at the heart of the global coal industry. By 1913, a third of the world’s coal exports came from Welsh ...
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 ...
This is Big Pit, the national coal museum in Blaenavon that is keeping alive the history of the industry on which modern Wales is built. And it's doing such a good job of it that it has just been ...
This is Big Pit, the national coal museum in Blaenavon that is keeping alive the history of the industry on which modern Wales is built. And it's doing such a good job of it that it has just been ...
This is Big Pit, Blaenavon's national coal museum, which is preserving the history of the industry that built modern Wales and much of the UK: coal. It's doing such an excellent job that it has ...
The innovative idea to use the historic Big Pit as a cheese ... reminisced one of Wales' most celebrated cheesemakers about her initial days on the high street of Blaenavon town that locals ...
But what does Morgan’s “chaotic” Christmas season look like? For our My Big Year series, the first minister of Wales tells all about her oddest traditions, the “guiding presence” of her late father ...
The idea to age the cheese in the historic Big Pit on the hillside ... cheese ageing,” one of Wales’ most renowned cheesemakers recalls of her early days on Blaenavon’s high street which ...