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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]They did bring Pit ponies to the surface if they were ill. to enter shows, during holidays and during strikes.Animal Welfare campaigners fought for the ponies to be brought to the surface for holidays, but many of the miners did not support this as they believed the disruption to the ponies was damaging and unkind.Above ground the ponies greww fatter with their idleness, wilder because of lack of handling-some even refused to answer to their names and ignored visitors.It would take them 3 to 4 weeks to return to their pre holiday state. My cousin has a picture on his wall of the last pit pony to come up from a local colliery-and has quite an interest in them, so I will try to find out where they holidayed. I have info on how the ponies had to be brought up from underground and of the types of work they did -is this of interest???[/quote]
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Pit Ponies
replied on: 9/21/2005 12:30:25 PM

They did bring Pit ponies to the surface if they were ill. to enter shows, during holidays and during strikes.Animal Welfare campaigners fought for the ponies to be brought to the surface for holidays, but many of the miners did not support this as they believed the disruption to the ponies was damaging and unkind.Above ground the ponies greww fatter with their idleness, wilder because of lack of handling-some even refused to answer to their names and ignored visitors.It would take them 3 to 4 weeks to return to their pre holiday state.
My cousin has a picture on his wall of the last pit pony to come up from a local colliery-and has quite an interest in them, so I will try to find out where they holidayed.
I have info on how the ponies had to be brought up from underground and of the types of work they did -is this of interest???

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