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Snailbeach Lead Mine Children’s
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Please see
separate pages for organized School visits
We encourage children’s
visits to the site as long as they are accompanied by a responsible adult.
Probably the most fascinating
thing to children is the underground experience. As well as being adventurous
it can also teach them about the way their ancestors lived. In many cases they
could easily have been working down a mine at their age 150 years ago.
There is a mine trail leaflet
available for children to work their way around the surface buildings answering
questions.
Please do not to let children climb or
play on buildings or equipment displayed.
Some trip
comments from children
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(Day Level) When I got to the
mine I got on the truck and Nick pushed us in, he didn’t have to push too
hard, as we were not going uphill, it didn’t take long. When we got to the
end we had to go through a door, there was a pretend man doing some work. It was dark
and I had a light on my helmet so I could see things. On the floor there were
bars and water was dripping from the ceiling. It was cold! We then went
to another part underground we had to go back out of where we were so I
got a ride on the truck again. Then we went for short drive to get to the
other part. |
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(Perkin’s Level) We had to go through a gate and
then we had to walk through loads of water, it was quite deep so it was
a good job I had on my wellies. My feet got a bit damp as the water was
splashing as I walked. We kept walking and came to an another gate, so we went
through it and on the other side, it was very dark. After
walking for a bit longer we came to a bridge made of metal, I looked down and it
looked muddy and a long way to fall but it was quite safe. |
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When I was walking round I was
looking at stones which all had different names, I was given a
piece of Barite and was allowed to keep it. It is a dirty white colour which
sparkles and looks like lots of crystals. We came to another bridge this one
was made out of wood, this one had a rope to hold onto not a normal
railing. The bridge was not that big. We had to go through a lot of tunnels. |
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