This is fascinating. My great-grandfather used to buy retired pit ponies. He was a hawker and used the ponies to pull his small trap. He had half a dozen ponies, so each only worked one day a week and had the rest of the time off. My mother learnt to ride on one of the ponies, but he had retired and so no longer had them by the time I was born.
The first pit ponies to be relocated to Beamish were the ponies from Marley Hill. Many years ago (1978ish) I visited the Marley Hill pit stables with the pest control officer who looked after the rodent problem there. Feisty little ponies. They were retired to Beamish when the pit was shut down in the 80s
I went down a redundant pit in wakefield where they used to have pit ponies and the tour guide told us that the pit ponies were treated better than the workers. All in all ponies and horses shud be above ground,enjoying life in a field,not slugging away in darkness and heaving cart loads of coal day in day out,such a sad life...
Back in the day , many ponies DID end up.partially sighted and even blind after spending much time down the mines, blinkered and often in total darkness....
@simonheed7964 Absolutely,, many suffered from what we now know as COPD, also Roarers and Whistlers Syndrome. For many it was a terrible unnatural life....
@@idafeuerfrau5631 it was the darkness that caused the sight deterioration as they spent so much of their lives down mines,,, when they came back up into the bright daylight it caused damage to the optic nerve, retina and focus nervous system.
Ive been to beamish its a lovely place well worth a visit. Glad you have ponies on site although i didnt see or know you had them. All shetlands do is eat eat eat😅❤
This is fascinating. My great-grandfather used to buy retired pit ponies. He was a hawker and used the ponies to pull his small trap. He had half a dozen ponies, so each only worked one day a week and had the rest of the time off. My mother learnt to ride on one of the ponies, but he had retired and so no longer had them by the time I was born.
The first pit ponies to be relocated to Beamish were the ponies from Marley Hill. Many years ago (1978ish) I visited the Marley Hill pit stables with the pest control officer who looked after the rodent problem there.
Feisty little ponies. They were retired to Beamish when the pit was shut down in the 80s
I went down a redundant pit in wakefield where they used to have pit ponies and the tour guide told us that the pit ponies were treated better than the workers.
All in all ponies and horses shud be above ground,enjoying life in a field,not slugging away in darkness and heaving cart loads of coal day in day out,such a sad life...
Back in the day , many ponies DID end up.partially sighted and even blind after spending much time down the mines, blinkered and often in total darkness....
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Biggest problem was the wind down there, the eyes got inflamed thus got blind. Not so much the dark ess
Not to mention the damage to the respiratory system!!
@simonheed7964 Absolutely,, many suffered from what we now know as COPD, also Roarers and Whistlers Syndrome. For many it was a terrible unnatural life....
@@idafeuerfrau5631 it was the darkness that caused the sight deterioration as they spent so much of their lives down mines,,, when they came back up into the bright daylight it caused damage to the optic nerve, retina and focus nervous system.
Ive been to beamish its a lovely place well worth a visit.
Glad you have ponies on site although i didnt see or know you had them.
All shetlands do is eat eat eat😅❤
Найстрашніший звір на планеті це людина.... Мучить все живе...😢
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