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The Coal Project
The YHGfL Coal Project
For over 200 hunderd years coal was "King". It was the source of power that warmed homes, drove railways and ocean liners and powered industry. Use these specially prepared digital resources to explore its triumphs and disasters. Find out the why, what and how of coal mining. Share the lives of those who worked the mines and those who lived in the mining villages and the great cities... share their stories.
The Video Conferencing Pathfinder teamed up with The National Coal Mining Museum of England to produce this footage of a lesson held to a class of children from Great Cotes School. The children got to ask two coal miners about life 'down the pit' and much more.
Thanks to Barbara Ainscough, the National Coalmining Museum of England and the British Pathe Film Archive, we have some excelent imagery and video footage of some mining history. There are two strikes and a pit disaster.
If you would like to find out more about coal mining around the world, we have a page of useful links. These links will open up a new browser window so you wont loose your place in our site.
Any resources are not to be used outside of your school. For details on this project, or for any other information, please contact us