Down in the dark
The black gold waits
Where no canaries sing
And no candles flicker.
It is there still,
And will wait for all time
If need be.
C is for . .
. coal mine. This is Big Pit, Blaenavon, in South East Wales. Blaenavon is a
UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to its importance in preserving the heritage of
the iron and coal industries in South Wales. Coal mining was of vital
importance to South Wales and the South Wales Valleys throughout the 18th
and 19th centuries, right up to the last decades of the 20th
century. Big Pit is a real Welsh coal mine that closed in 1983, then opened to
the public in 1983 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales.
