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Big Pit

About a century ago South Wales was one of the major coal exporting centres of the world. Ports such as Newport, Cardiff and Barry shipped anthracite to all corners of the globe and kept supplied with the output from literally hundreds of collieries peppered throughout the valleys of the interior.

 

 

 

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