For more than 80 years Woodhorn was a coal mine.

Work to sink the first shaft began in late Victorian times and at its peak was producing 600,000 tons of coal each year!

Pupils in Year 6 spent the day investigating the original colliery buildings, emotive displays and solving a mining mystery!

They even got a final glimpse of the iconic poppies sculpture, the ‘Weeping Window’, which was being dismantled to be taken to Liverpool for its next exhibition.