http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/mobile/news/article/7250/urchins-back-railway-in-tv-poll
Follow this link to read the Barnsley Chronicle article about our Y1 trip to Elsecar railway. We think that the photo captures how well the children portrayed the role of young mining children.
“The youngsters showed up in period dress at the steam railway, demonstrating their support for a TV poll where viewers can vote for the railway to win £50,000 funding.
Voting will take place on Monday when the televised poll will be on ITVs Calendar programme at 6pm. The number people will need to call in order to cast their votes will be published in the Daily Mirror on the same day.
At the filming camera crews honed in on what appeared to be a little smudge-faced miner and his waiting maid companion. Other schoolchildren, including year one pupils from Hoyland Common primary school, also turned out in the nippy conditions to watch the filming and the spectacle of the chugging steam train.“