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bennerley

Pit Ponies
replied on: 11/15/2006 11:43:05 AM

Poinies were working in Moorgreen Pit when I was there in the 1960s. There stables were very well lit, warm and stacked with hay and straw gurded by a large Ginger cat. Robin used to stop and refuse to move on ,with tubs, unless he was given a piece of chewing tobacco.

I do not know how often they were taken out of the pit.

At Manners Colliery, near to the Squints, was a large field bounded by old shaft ropes held in posts of railway line. It had a circular pond in one corner fed by a spring. A path crossed the field in front of stables for three black pit ponies. As children you climbed on the fence near a stile to check if the ponies were in the field. If not you chanced the short cut across the field BUT as you passed the open doors of the stables out raced the ponies and chased us across to the next stile. I can only guess that ponies were worked in a rota system with breaks up on top in the field.

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