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Saving Britain's Past

Episode 5: The Pit

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Series charting the development of the conservation movement in Britain since the Second World War. Architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff visits Big Pit in South Wales to see how a mining community used industrial heritage to reinvent itself and ended up becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Dyckhoff
Executive Producer:
Basil Comely

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