HERIAN News

A new BBC Wales living history series, Coal House, will transport three families back to the south Wales coalfield of the 1920s this October.

Over four weeks the Cartwright family from Penarth near Cardiff, the Griffiths family from Ceredigion and the Phillips family from the Vale of Glamorgan will cope with daily life as the mining community lived it 80 years ago - a year after the last general strike and before the pits were nationalised. They will leave behind all creature comforts and live in a miners cottage in Blaenavon, the site of the renowned Big Pit: National Mining Museum.

The BBC website is looking for people to add their memories of working in the mines and of living in mining communities - so take a look at the website www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse and why not visit one of the mining museums across South Wales to discover more about the lives of a miner (Big Pit, Rhondda Heritage Park or Cefn Coed Colliery Museum).