Year 6 visited the Victors tunnels in Newcastle. The Victoria Tunnel is a preserved underground wagon way that was constructed in the 19th-century to support the local coal-mining trade. Almost 100 years later, it was converted into a life-saving air-raid shelter during the Second World War.
We all had a one-hour tour underground into the Victoria Tunnel and a one-hour classroom activity where we handled original and replica artefacts and found out lots of information from a lady who lived through World War two and was trapped in a Morrison Shelter for around 7 hours when her house was bombed. We had great fun and learned lots.
