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Pit Ponies
replied on: 10/27/2005 8:50:24 PM
I used to live on Old Coppice Side Marlpool and worked at Mapperley ,Woodside and Coppice collieries .I have fond recollections of the ponies being brought out for the 2 weeks holidays at Coppice and going absolutely crazy when they got in the fields .Mr. Musson up the road was an ostler at at the pit .I also worked at Ormonde colliery in the 60's and they had the most sophisticated mining machinery (rolf)in the world but at the pit bottom the first thing you saw were these beautiful pit ponies pulling the transport tubs .
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