After squeezing out  water with the mangle the socks must be hung out to dry.	And still the days work goes on for the miners children.There are beds to be made ....so watch carefully .
Don't forget the family hens, children.  They must be fed and locked away in the hen cree. Be careful about the big cockerel  with the fancy  tail.  He's dangerous.	Then finally time to look forward to a hot tin bath in front of the coal fire  but you'll have to wait until  Mam has boiled the water on fire.
Sunday morning is Chapel time.  All the family goes to church in the morning.  Most  children go to Sunday School in the afternoon.	At Sunday School the children learn to sing all kinds of little songs about  stories taken from the Bible  and they learn about the life of Jesus and who he was.
If  it is a long way to church then the children would, perhaps ride on a tram but the conductor would expect them to pay for the ride.  Any misbehaviour and they would be put off the tram and have to walk.  If they were late getting home they would really  get a scolding from Mam with no excuses accepted. .	Usually children walked almost everywhere they went in those days.  Even if  Mummy had given them the tram  fare they would walk to save there threepence.  The money was usually spent on something nice to eat such as small loaves of brown bread for a penny or maybe some toffee or chocolate coated popcorn.
Travelling on the tram the children pass the  village coal mine where Dad works and probably an older brother too.  In the old days the pit was the only place where the men could get jobs.	They might also see an old railway train pulling  wagons full of coal.  Many such wagons used to be taken from Seaham Colliery  to Seaham Harbour Docks.  The coal was then loaded on to ships taken to London and elsewhere.
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