5.2 head down t’pit!

We had a fantastic time down t’pit at the National Coal Mining Museum.

Our journey started with a slight delay on the M606 due to some cheeky cows, who decided that the grass on the central reservation was far superior that that in the field! An amusing start to our day.

We soon arrived at the museum and divided into two groups so that we could go to our workshop on how times have changed for the families of miners and to do our underground tour with an actual miner. We couldn’t believe just how dark and cold it was down Hope Pit. Did you know that it is 140m deep which is the same as the Blackpool tower is tall? We learned lots of new things about the terrible conditions that the miners worked in and how technology has helped make it a safer environment – still not sure we’d like to do it though! We had a play at the new playground and even got to take some coal home. Mrs Smith thought we behaved so amazingly that she bought us all a Mini Milk ice cream for the journey home.

Have a look at few of our photos.

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