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 Lauren M
When I went
down the mine I was so scared and frightened because of
my step dad said” keep your feet in or they will get chopped off and it wouldn't be a pretty sight."
If you
sat there like I did singing you would get battered or even worse!
My
step dad came in and said “you have to
open the door for the cart to weal in were my mother and father would fill it
up ready to come out but I didn’t
understand I was only five years old” .
It was that warm it was ladies and men
also children had to take all there clothes off.
All I
could hear in the mine was the rats scuttling all over wounded men and women even children
how horrible.
The biggest amount of money you could get was three and
a half p if you worked hard enough but the men only got paid I worked
for nothing as a boy because apparently the men worked harder than all the other people .
Nobody liked the job because it was very scary and deadly.
Lots of my friends died because of one of the planks of
wood had fallen and all of my friends died on that day and I used to carry a
snack wrapped up in a cloth but when I’d finished
my job I went to grab my food but it was gone the rats and mice ate it .
The first time my dad told me what I had to do I sat
there in darkness singing.
The worst part was getting down into the mine because
all the lifts did not have safety nets on the sides so nobody dared stand by the net .
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