EASTBURN School pupils have been learning about life for children working in 19th-century mills.

The youngsters visited Bradford Industrial Museum as part of a project about the philanthropist, Titus Salt.

Class teacher, Heather Allister, said: “The children are writing a diary as if they worked in a mill in the Victorian era.

“At the Industrial Museum, they were taught how kids as young as five had to crawl under heavy machinery to clean-up wool that had been dropped, which was very dangerous.

“They also had a demo of the weaving machines and the noise they used to make.”