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Roger Gosling <[log in to unmask]> writes
>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
>
>
>
Would you include the various commercially run show-mines in Derbyshire
and elsewhere, e.g.. Speedwell, Blue John, Treak Cliff, and the ones on
Masson Hill?
Cheers.
--
David Williams
Visit www.pdmhs.com for information
on the Peak District Mines Historical Society
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