Year 3 - Dean Heritage Centre

As part of our Forest Capers topic, Year 3 visited The Dean Heritage Centre to help us understand how life in the Forest of Dean has changed over the years.


We visited Ma Meek in the Victorian cottage and had a go at  washing clothes the hard way using a wash board and dolly which was a big difference from the automatic washing machines we use today!

We also learnt all about how they use to make charcoal by building a stack and we had a go at making our own.

The galleries were very interesting and we looked at different artifacts from long ago. The mining artefacts were very interesting and we even had a go at pulling one of the carts that children years ago had to pull full of coal in the mines.