Editing Treacle mining (section)

== Cultural references ==
The Treacle Mine has been a joke played on children and the gullible since at least the nineteenth century.
*[[Ottershaw School]] in [[Surrey]] (a state boarding school founded in 1948 and closed in 1980) encouraged all new boys, on their first Sunday, to wait outside the Main gate for the coach that would take them on an outing to the Chobham Treacle Mines.
*In ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (1865) by [[Lewis Carroll]], Alice is shushed at the [[The Hatter|Mad Hatter's]] tea party for disbelieving a story told by the [[Dormouse]] about a treacle well, inspired by the [[holy well]] at [[Binsey, Oxfordshire]].
*In ''[[Uncle and the Treacle Trouble]]'' (1967), a children's book by [[J. P. Martin]], the main character (an elephant named "Uncle") discovers the true meaning of a cryptic sign which reads "Treac Levat"; the characters soon discover that it relates to a vast hidden treacle vat.
*Treacle mining features in several novels by [[Terry Pratchett]]. On the fictional [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] treacle is mined from buried deposits of compressed ancient sugarcane. In the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]] there is a street named Treacle Mine Road, with the current watch house (analogous to a police station) found in the building formerly housing the entrance to a treacle mine. The books also make references to "deep treacle" deposits beneath the city. As with many features of the Discworld, treacle mines exist ''because'' people believe in them, according to the Discworld's Theory of Narrative Causality.
*''[[The Treacle People]]'' was a children's TV show from 1996 based around the treacle mines of [[Sabden]] in [[Lancashire]].
*All the members of the Seven Champions [[Molly dance|Molly Dancers]]<ref name=SevenChamps>[http://www.sevenchampions.org.uk Seven Champions Molly Dancers]</ref> from [[Kent]] are reputed to be treacle miners.
*Some of [[Ken Dodd]]'s [[Diddy Men]] were said to work in a [[Jam sandwich (food)|jam butty]] mine.  This appears to be a similar concept.