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Memories of our great day out at Beamish Museum.

"We spent the whole day there and it was very interesting. I was dressed in a long black skirt with a peach see-through blouse an a Victorian cloak. In the classroom I had to write with a Victorian pen and we had to dip the nibs in the inkwells, it was hard because the ink makes a blob on the paper."

The classroom was big and airy. We sat on wooden benches that were joined to the desks in a long row. We had to call the teacher Ma'am and she made us learn our twelve times table. She also gave us a test on them. We also did some handwriting and it had all of the letters of the alphabet."

"we went down a coal mine. I am glad I did not live in Victorian times because I might have had to work down them as lots of children did."

" When it was play time we played with the steel hoops. The girls and the boys had separate yards and if a child were caught in the wrong yard they would have got the cane."

"We went to number five, Francis Street where we were put into groups. First Laura and I made the beds, beat the carpet, swept the rug and washed the lino. The boys laid the fire. When the boys were laying the fire they had to black lead it and scrunch up some paper and lay sticks and coal.When it came to the coal the coal house was empty so they had to borrow someone else's. They also waxed the piano."

"The mine was only four foot six and I kept bumping my head"

"Later on we got on the tram to go to the town where we walked to the sweet shop. There, a lady was making sweets, she called them, "Saint Pat.'s Blackcurrant Balls".

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