1. Black Country Living Museum Mine Tour1

2. Overview Geographic location History Mining in the 19th century
The mining tour
Tools 2

3. Geographic location
Located in the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley (in the west of Birmingham). 3

4. History Most important industries in the 19th century:
production of coal and iron
Major centre: Black country
Special thick coal
Industrial revolution: the cities getting more and more rich
Mining and the job as a blacksmith were really important 4

5. Mining in the 19th century
Hard and dangerous job
Mine could collapse
Miners did not get much money
No sunlight for many days 5

6. The mining tour Shows the hard work of the miners
In 1990: underground mining tour opened
Visitors grew up to a year
Lasts 35 minutes
The whole tour is in the underground 6

7. The mining tour Waiting room: you get a helmet and a torch
Lowest point in the mine:1.5 meters high
Electronic techniques for better feeling
Explosion
Models of miners with their tools 7

8. Tools
an oil lamp
a pickaxe
a shovel
tubes
a glass to drink 8