Year 5 and 6 visited the
National Coal Mining Museum on Monday 23rd January to find out about
life at work for children in Victorian
Britain. When they got back, they
imagined being the inspectors they heard about; listening to stories from the
children who worked underground. Here’s
what they heard...
Inspector Leah:
When
I was down in the mine I was very scared and
frightened because my mean step dad took the candle with him and left me sat
there with no candle and it was very
dark. I had to open the doors with a string to let the go cart in. If I didn’t
open the doors in time my step dad would come out and beat me. Boys the age of
8 had to pull a car full of coal and it was as heavy as an elephant. Girls were
not allowed to go underground. If you fell asleep your leg would get chopped
off by the go cart. You was not allowed to sing down the mine because you
wouldn’t hear the go cart coming and your dad would beat you again and it hurt.
You had to be 8 and over to go down the mine. Boys that are 8 and 9 had to pull
go carts full of coal he found it very hard. They had to go down in a metal
cage with no front or back most people who went in the metal cage fell out and
got trapped or killed. Sometimes
when you went down you
had no food or water. When
you was a trapper you had to work very hard so you don’t let the air out of the
doors if you did you
would suffocate. Samuel’s father had to see if it was real or not and the
women had to see if
there was stone with the coal if
there was stone they had to throw it away. Women had to do hard work as well
not just sit around doing nothing women
found it hard but not as hard as the men did. When I was down the mine my step sister and brothers
got trapped under a collapsed roof of the mine. It took them 3 weeks to get out.
Do you think it sounds easy? I got found on a door step by the orphanage when they looked out and
found me they took me in and after
someone had they called me samual
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