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Pit Ponies
replied on: 9/21/2005 9:45:43 PM

Going back to the late 1930s. If you walked from Shipley pond, under the railway bridge towards Marlpool, the pit pony stables were about 100 yards on the right after the bridge. Thats where they were broken in and trained. They very often kicked hell out of the tubs at first.
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