Wow what an incredible time we had today at the Lancashire Mining Museum. The children were all so excited for this trip and couldn’t wait to learn more about their History Topic.✨✨
We started the morning by going on a train ride and looking at different aspects of the colliery. All children throughly enjoyed this and were super excited to be on a train!🚂
We then split into groups to complete a range of activities. We were lucky enough to learn about:
✨Train: we went on a train ride and looked at where the coal would be dropped off and picked up. We were also shown where the coal fields would have been in the past.
✨The Engine Room: the winding engine which served the shaft is the largest surviving colliery winding engine of its type in Europe. It was connected to a drum which in turn was connected to the headgear pulleys to wind up the coal and wind down the miners and maintenance supplies. The children loved seeing this engine in action!
✨Headgear: we saw the only surviving headgear on the Lancashire Coalfield. The children were told all about the important job it had to do.
✨Miner’s Cottage: we went into a Miner’s cottage and learnt all about what it was like to live in a cottage from the past. We saw the coal fires, how they washed their clothes and what their bedroom was like.
✨We went on an underground experience and looked at the conditions and the equipment they would have used.
We also spent time visiting a Blacksmiths. We looked at different metals and how they are bent, we learnt who a Blacksmith was and why they were called a Blacksmith.
We looked at different fossils and we also had the opportunity to climb into a Miner’s tunnel to experience what it would have been like to crawl in the Coal Mine.
The children behaved exceptionally throughout the trip. They did lots of listening, question answering and they blew the adults away with their super knowledge. We are so proud of them all!💛