Coal mining in Victorian times

www.scan.org.uk/education/
coal/index.html

The Scottish Archive Network's Education site.

Historic records about:

Coal mining jobs Dangers, Working conditions, Housing,

Improvements

Coal mining posters, reports, lists of rules and photographs to study.

Click to enlarge the images then answer the questions.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
victorians/

Children in Victorian Times, worked up the chimneys or in the mines.

An Interactive Game.

Go to Work then Game to match the children to their job.

Go to Work then Learning to play the movie about the kind of work that children did.

www.scottishminingmuseum.com/
default.asp?tid=1

The Scottish Mining Museum.

Go to Mining Facts to download Facts sheets about clothing, food, ponies etc.

www.rls.org.uk/pathfinders/
sub_category.php?
sub_category_id=
33&sub_category=
Mining&category_id=
2&category=At%20work

Pathfinder Pack on Coal Mining

Coal Mining 1850 – 1875

1875 - 1900

Information and historic photographs about mining.

What can you find out about mining in Victorian times?

www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/
scotlandonfilm/media_clips/
index_topic.shtml ?topic=
work&subtopic=mines

Films and interviews to listen to about Scotland ’s mines.

Watch films or listen to audio clips about mining in the past.

http://freepages.genealogy.
rootsweb.com/~cmhrc/list80.htm

Coal mines of the UK at work in 1880.

Go to Scotland then Baillieston And Shettleston District. Which mine is near where you live?

www.old-maps.co.uk/

Historic map from 1864.

Type in Easterhouse or your area in the box on the left hand side and click search. You will get a map of the area from 1864. Can you find the different coal mines?

www.victoriantimes.org/
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Virtual tour of a Victorian mine.

What do the pictures tell you about the working conditions in a mine?

Click on the scrolls for short extracts to read.

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