Horses and pit ponies have played a vital role in the local coal mining industry. Their job was to pull the heavy skips of coal along tracks out of the mine. Some ponies would spend all of their…
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Horses and pit ponies were a major part of mining life up to the 1950s and even as far as the 1990s. Of the 30 horses or pit ponies at work in the mine on the day of the disaster, 18 were found alive.
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