A museum is set to commemorate the end of the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike with a special event. Big Pit National Coal Museum will host a day of 'strike memories,' featuring talks, film, poetry ...

The shop and reception area at the Big Pit National Coal Museum have been transformed to increase the mining experience.

Monday, March 30, 1925, should have just been another day at the pit - but instead, unimaginable horror would be unleashed. At 9.30am, two miners working hundreds of feet underground fired a ...

The story of the South Wales valleys is a snapshot of a world that is no more. Once a flourishing mining industry, the region is now wracked with unemployment and poverty. The one colliery still ...

A miner who survived the First World but died in ... George Gill Hetherington, who was 32, lived in Bells Close, a short walk to the Montagu pit at the western end of Scotswood Road in Newcastle.