Year 5 Visit Dudley's
Black Country Museum

Inside one of the buildings
The poor man's house.

A two seater toilet and no main sewer

We think "two's a crowd!"

In the washhouse - an aluminium tub with dolly

Before tumble driers you dried you clothes using a mangle.
The clothes were fed through the wooden rollers and the water literally pressed out of the clothes.

The sweet shop

They called it the "suck shop" where you had to suck the sweets slowly to make them last as long as possible

The hardware shop

You could buy screws and nails loose,
and not all packaged up in plastic

General store

Chain making

This was a very common scene
in the Midlands many years ago

Sparks flew everywhere

School in the old days

Spartan buildings heated by coal fires

Getting the cane

The school bell

Cheslyn Hay used to have a school bell
from the original Primary School

Unfortunately it was stolen.

Going into the mine

A dangerous way to make a living.

Many miners lost their lives.

The whole class outside the mine

The Bottle and Glass pub

Trams and trolleybuses which are now making a comeback!

Black Country Museum staff in costume

06 February 2006