Big Pit

Today we went to visit Big Pit in Blaenavon as part of our topic on coal. It was very cold and extremely windy when we got there but that didn't stop us from having fun. We looked around the museum at the machinery the miners used, saw the canaries in the lamp room and went into an interactive show which had loud bangs and noises. It was very informative and fun following the miner on the screen around the show. After lunch we went down the mine. We put on hats with torches and a heavy belt that had a battery and breathing apparatus. We went 90m down to the coalface and the miner took us through the mine showing us how they worked years ago. We are the right age to work the doors in the pitch black for 12 hours but we decided school is better!

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