Nenthead takes its visitors into a mine. Unfortumnately, we are
technically not a Museum. Define your terms?
Peter Jackson
NPHT
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Roger Gosling
Sent: 05 December 2003 12:46
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Subject: How many UK mining museums have underground tours?
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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