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VISIT
TO THE ESCUCHA MINING MUSEUM
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| We arrived to a main
gallery. It was very dark. Our guide, who was called Rosa, explained us
how miners used to work. |
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On October the 30
Th, at 10 o clock in the morning, we set off towards Escucha in order to
visit the underground mining museum. We made two groups. |
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we entered the shop-equipment room, where a woman helped us to put on the
helmet, and a belt with a battery and lifesaving equipment. |
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After that, we sat
on a train and we went down to the bottom of the mine. |
| Then we went to another
gallery to see Saint Barbara, who is the Saint of the miners, she was in
a wagon. |
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In the mine there
were dolls that looked like men at work. Later we saw a donkey with a wagon.
The train took us up to another gallery to see a milling machine. We also
saw a transporting tape. |
| In the tunnels there
were ventilation holes and iron and wooden beams. In the last tunnel there
was a dynamite box. Dynamite used to be put in the walls and then it was
made to blow up with a detonator to extract the coal. |
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At about 1 in the
afternoon we sat on the train seats and went up to outside; then we visited
an exhibition room with very big machines. Later we went to the bus to get
our sandwiches and then we entered a pub to eat.
Girls and boys of Vocational Training level |
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