Hoyland Springwood Primary School

Caphouse Colliery Visit

On Friday 9^th February Class Three visited Caphouse Colliery, which is now the National Coal Mining museum.  Our topic is coal mining in Yorkshire so the museum was perfect for that.  As soon as we arrived we were given helmets and lights and taken down a real life mine.  Everyone really enjoyed it, except when David, our guide, joked that there were thousands of rats down there!

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        After we had looked around the mine we came back up and had our lunch.  Next we went to visit Mrs Lockwood, she was a miner’s wife from 1949 and she showed us around her kitchen.  She said that we could call her Auntie Mable and she gave us bread and dripping sandwiches to eat.

            In the afternoon we also met and patted the pit ponies, one of then head-butted us!  We saw where the miners would have taken a shower after being down the mine and we looked around the rest of the museum. 

            We all really enjoyed the day and some of us were so tired out that they went to sleep on the bus home!