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The Big Pit from Bill Lollar
Mining has played a very special and necessary role in the history of the world and economy for so many years. When it comes to learning more about the bane and the boon of mining and its history, the world renowned Big Pit National Coal Museum located in Wales will surely make your curious mind satisfied with everything that you would ever want to learn about mining.
The Big Pit is not like any other museums in the world. You ought to go three hundred feet down to the mine before you would discover its many wonders. Surely, for those claustrophobics out there, this tour might not be a good idea for you. However, for the adventurous bunch who would like to experience something new, your trip here would definitely be worth the while. It houses engaging galleries and different collections dating back from its original establishment during the late 1800s as a museum. The most intriguing part of this tour is that even the entrance fee or admission is for free with expert tour guides who were miners a long time ago as well.
While inside the museum, you will be required to wear a helmet, head flashlight, batter, belt and a “self-rescuer” as if you were a real and authentic miner! Exciting, isn’t it? You will likewise be instructed on safety measures while inside the premises. The mine is illuminated by lamps. However, you will be taken way down to the mineshaft unto the core of the mine. The entire underground tour surrounded by coal faces, engine houses and stables would generally last for about fifty minutes. You will be enthralled by how exciting and diverse the ways of mining can get and also learn about how miners would transport coal that has been explained to you prior the tour by the miners themselves.
pithead-baths from MuseumWales
There is one part of the tour that features the life of the mining communities during the 1850s called The Pithead Baths. This area would most definitely interest you as you think wondrously how the hole of baths is essential to the maintenance of good health to the miners and how this area has changed their entire lives. The gallery also portrays different kinds of photographs and old mining remains such as tools, safety gear and clothes. You will likewise endeavor through an audio-visual experience in the Mining Gallery how the Welsh mining field has progressed through time as well as the sophisticated power machines that these miners use nowadays.
Explosives magazine in the copper mine from Ruth and Dave
There is also the historical buildings where you will find out the different types of coal production and how the mining is operated. Travel back through time at the Blacksmiths’ Yard where buildings that have been standing since the late 1800s were used as welding shops to repair anything for the colliery. A distance from the other buildings is the Explosive Magazine which have been made for the cause of ignition accidents and blow through the roof of back wall, away from the main colliery. The most essential part of the building called the Fan House, on the other hand, will show you the primary role of the ventilation system in the establishment.
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Apart from the magnificent exhibits, the museum is also driven to educating the tourists about the controversial issues of energy sustainability as well as mining, geology, mining disasters, uses of coal and safety measures of an atmosphere like this.
The museum is open every day from mid nine in the morning until mid three in the afternoon. It would be best if you come earlier for the underground tour. The number thirty bus would depart daily from Cwmbran on destination to the Big Pit and back. Say, four hours tops would be the duration for the visit. Don’t forget to pack up Welsh snacks at the Miner’s Canteen located by the Pithead Baths so you won’t get hungry as you tour around this magnificent establishment.
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