On the website
http://www.pontypooltown.info/bil/contents/leftcontent.htm
in the part about Big Pit, it states:
"Big Pit is one of only two mining museums in the United Kingdom where visitors can be taken underground."
I think there are more than two mining museums in the UK with underground tours, but it probably depends on how you define a "Mining Museum"
Which do list members think is the other ONE the Big Pit website is referring to? Perhaps if they mean coal mines, then it is Caphouse?
How many other mines have a TRUE underground trip to them (for the ordinary tourist)? For example can we call these mining museums? Sygun, the various N Wales slate mines, Glengowla, Tom Leonard (Cleveland Ironstone), Birkhill, Clearwell, Killhope, Nenthead, Great Orme, Honister, Llywernog, Morwellham, Wanlockhead?, Dolaucothi?, Temple, Geevor, Rhondda (Lewis Merthyr), Poldark. Which ones have I missed?
Roger
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