Today me and Elliot (Director), went to the National Coal mining museum to complete the section of the documentary on ‘preserving the history’. When we arrived we was planning on actually going down into the mine to see if we could collect any additional sound material. However seen as it was all booked up we first had a look round and learnt about the history of coal mining, we saw a traditional coal bath house, machinary used to collect the coal, equipment and even stuff like snack tins which were used by the miners. Towards mid day we met up with our interviewee who works at the coal museum library, and was the best choice for learning about the importance of keeping the history alive through the museum. David, our interviewee talked to us about how eager people are to learn about the coal industry (most particulary regarding the horryfying accidents which occurred in some of the pits) and how they even employee ex miners to work and show people around the mine. In this interview you could tell that the guy was really passionate about the Yorkshire mining community and the importance of showing todays children what life was like down the pit. From what I saw the children queuing to go down into the pit were not only intrigued and fascinated but also very excited to go down into the pit. We are looking forward to editing and looking over this section of the documentary in more depth.