William Brown - Any Information, Medal, 1911, Scottish Society To Promote Kindness To Pit Ponies
Paul - "Sharpo's World" for Transport Photos
John Miles - Were Rescuers Paid To Rescue Horses?
Eileen Mason - Pit Ponies and Bentley Colliery. My mother recalled a shipment of Polish/Russian ponies being off loaded into a field near the pit. It was not a pleasant memor
Dave Johnson - Scottish Society to Promote kindness to Pit Ponies Medal 1911. Huge site, collection of mining artifacts and memorabilia, photos. Mainly America.
Cathy Farrow - As a young girl in the 50 and 60s I remember my Grandad bring up the ponies during the holidays.
What Do You Know About Pit Ponies? - Any help would be enormously appreciated; Ian Henderson, Emeritus Professor of Vertebrate Endocrinology
Former mine worker, John Talbot, tells about his life at Manners Colliery - Ilkeston, Around 1890.
Pit Ponies, Mapperley Colliery, and Alfred Shaw - In the mid-1800s, the farm was home to 18 shire horses employed to transport coal
The Pits Ponies at Blenkinsopp - The entrance to the stables where the ponies were kept and is now over grown.
We had ponies in Moorgreen Pit - I can only remember the name of one - Robin because he would suddenly stop for no apparent reason and would only move on after he had been given some chewing tobacco.
Ernest James called out - to Ireland Colliery. It appeared that the pony had knocked down a barrier and had gone up an old roadway