What our Primary School Children Say About Us

"It was fun finding out about  the miner's job when the driver isn't allowed to be distracted because if he did it could make the cage go down too fast and smack the bottom. …. The cage couldn't fit 8 of us in at once so it got a bit squishy in there”

I am writing to say thank you for letting us have a look around King Edward Mine. We went to the shaking table. We had to guess if the coin went up or down. When Frank turned on the table and the coin went up the machine. The board had sand on it and the sand went one way and the black tin went another way"

“I also liked it when Lesley let us make the mines and sketch some things. My favorite thing was when Frank showed us all sorts of rocks and some of them were green."

"My favorite things were making the engine house and sketching the equipment. The museum trail was great. I liked the rocks that were in the big container. I liked it when you were telling us about the tin and copper. "

And from the teacher

"Inside the museum they completed a paper trail that guided them to things of interest amongst all the artefacts and information boards on display. They were fascinated by the goose-quill fuses filled with explosive black powder and the models carefully built by mining heritage enthusiasts. Their school project focus is the lives of people in the mining community in the past. And so they were able to find out about the differences between the rich mine owners and the poor miners in the 19th Century. They have also been looking at the poetry of John Harris and were able to find out a little about the life and works of this important man."