Model 'miners' being sculpted in a workshop in York, for a coal-mining museum built on the site of a disused pit in the Rhonnda Valley, South Wales. Model 'miners' being sculpted in a workshop in York, for a coal-mining museum built on the site of a disused pit in the Rhonnda Valley, South Wales. The valley was once world-famous for its coal, but all its mines are now closed. The South Wales valleys used to employ 250,000 miners in 400 pits.
