00:00I'm Gary Ward, I'm a guide at Cap House Colliery, I've been in coal mining for 36 years and
00:10what we're doing now is something different, they call it the Time Tunnel but it's always
00:14been a Time Tunnel because of its history, which we build on, then we take the public
00:19through the history of the Time Tunnel to nearly the present day, so it's quite a good
00:24experience.
00:25We've opened it up because we're going through the history of the Time Tunnel but we're going
00:29through the history of mining as well.
00:32We are having a new winding engine put in so we've got to look at ways to keep it public
00:37coming and we've found a good way here with this tunnel because it was already a good
00:41exhibit but we've added to it to make it even better, so it should be a decent experience
00:46but we'll wait to find out.
00:47We'll see the history of coal mining from the 1840s through 1945 to 1979, which was
00:57I've got to say my present day, that's when I started in the industry, so and then we'll
01:02answer questions and see if we can enlighten the public on that.
01:06It's something I've done most of my work, well I've done it all my working life, I walked
01:10out at school gates and I walked into pit gates more or less, so it's something I've
01:15done all my life and I don't want it to be forgotten.
01:19We were backbone country for many years so we don't want to be forgotten for that.
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