General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I took my boys and 2 of their friends to Blaenarvon when they were young. We went down in the cage and came back on a railway, (I think it's a funicular). They took all our phones off us before we went down. We were all impressed, little eyes popping out of heads. The pit was propped but there was a massive yellow digger type thing there, presumably to bore through the rock, dunno. How would they get that down there? They were good, did ask questions and got answers. They were interested in the noise and vibration of this yellow thing which they weren't allowed to go on. It had tracks, not wheels.

And at the museum, they were fasinated by the miners in the 19th century having to provide their own candles and walk miles to work and back.

Do schools do these day trips any more?