UK town where people live to just 54 that was 'once a masterpiece loved around the world'
For a decade and a half, Susan Fiander-Woodhouse has been maturing her prize-winning cheeses in an old mine near her shop. The innovative idea to use the historic Big Pit as a cheese-aging chamber was ...
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Wales tells its National Coal Museum to find ‘historical injustices’ to teach
The Big Pit museum is a 140-year-old former coal mine in Blaenavon, in south Wales and part of Museum Wales, a government-backed body which is bound to follow a Labour directive to set “the ...
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‘Our little Welsh town was a masterpiece loved around the world, but so much has changed’
For 15 years Susan Fiander-Woodhouse aged her award-winning cheeses down a mine near her shop in Blaenavon. The idea to age the cheese in the historic Big Pit on the hillside above her shop came ...
A cure for whooping cough
When we were children it was said that if you had whooping cough your father should take his jam sandwiches down Big Pit and leave them down there through his shift.