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Pit Ponies
replied on: 9/23/2005 11:41:36 AM

I know a couple of the farms in Mapperley village supplied the hay for the ponies at Mapperley Colliery, and the ponies would be in their fields when they came above ground - that is probably why the Coal Board owned farms and farm cottages!
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