On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 15:43:27 -0000 Roger Gosling <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I expect most UK list members will know of the Channel 4 Time Team TV
programmes. The next series of 13 programmes starts on 7 January and there
is one that looks as if it will be of interest to mining historians. This
programme entitled 'Down, Down, Deeper and Down - Blaenavon' will be
broadcast on 4 February.
>
Before getting too interested in the 4th Feb programme, Mike Aston in a talk
before Christmas in aid of the the Oxfordshire Country Museum showed a slide
of a very big hole in the late 19th and 20th mining waste tips with the top
of the tramway viaduct pillars at the bottom! So I suspect the title refers
to this hole.
Chris Salter
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