Exploring Blaenavon Industrial Landscape / World Heritage Site by Chris
Barber 2002 220 pp numerous photos, many in colour. Blorenge Books,
Abergavenny. SB £9.99 Available from Mike Moore <[log in to unmask]>
This book continues with the tradition that was started by Alexander
Cordell in his book Rape of a Fair Country in describing the area around
Blaenavon. This area comprises one of the finest examples of a landscape
created by iron making and coal mining in the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. In 2000 an area of 32.9 square kilometres around the Blaenavon
Industrial Landscape was listed as a World Heritage Site.
Chris Barber’s book includes a series of six walks which take in
tramroads, water courses, tunnels, furnaces, and mines. It includes the
Big Pit which is one of the two mines in the country where the public can go
underground in a pit cage. As with all Museums in Wales, entrance is free,
even the underground trip.
One of the most impressive things about this book is the drawing of
Michael Blackmore. His panoramic landscape views are invaluable in
showing the layout of mines and villages, long since gone.
Chris Barber is a well known author and has published over twenty books,
it might be churlish of me to say which one is the best, but this book is
certainly my favourite.
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