... Great postcard with an eye catching design... using a strong illustrative style... a testament to the human endeavour of miners and ironworkers of the past... the working people who drove the industrial revolution... Blaenavon WHS site is a mix of industrial landscape and natural beauty... home to one of the best preserved 18thC ironworks in Europe... complete with furnaces, cast houses, a magnificent water balance tower, cupola furnace and ironworkers cottages... including a coal mine, churches, chapels, a school and a workmen’s hall... but the main attraction is the Big Pit with the associated National Coal Museum, which was a working coal mine from the mid-19th to the late 20thC... nowadays, there are interesting underground tours guided by former miners... the complex includes several exhibitions about the mines and the often miserable lives of the miners... all set in a landscape that is also favoured by walkers, cyclists and mountain bikers... Thanks a lot Paul! ❀◕ ‿ ◕❀
Blaenavon is a small, industrial mining town nestled among the Brecon Beacons mountains of South Wales. The hills to the west of the town contain the source of the Afon Lwyd, the main river running through the county borough of Torfaen, South Wales’s easternmost valley.
The name Blaenavon literally means ‘front of the river’ or, loosely, ‘river's source’.
The two key sites of Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (33 km²) are the Blaenavon Ironworks, managed by Cadw, and Big Pit, managed by Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales.
In 2000, UNESCO inscribed the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape as a World Heritage Site.
Definitives - Daffodil (Wales Regional Issues)
(Issued 17-03-2020)
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