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How you can help Where your money goes The National Coal Mining Museum for England is home to two rescued ponies and a Clydesdale horse. It costs around £2,000 per year to care for each of them.Your adoption fee helps to pay for their food, bedding, tack, rugs, fencing, shelter, shoeing and/or feet trimming, dental treatment and vet bills.
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Pit Pony Facts
• In 1913, there were 70,000 ponies working underground. Use of ponies declined as mechanical cutting and haulage systems became more effective. • Horses and ponies are measured in hands. A hand measures 4 inches (10cm). • Most deep-mine ponies were stabled underground and only came to the surface for annual holidays or during long strikes or lockouts. • Drift-mine ponies would come to the surface every day. • Ponies of different sizes were used in different parts of the country. • At first ponies and horses worked wholly above ground, transporting coal for local use, and at many small mines, provided power for the horse-driven winding gins. Later, they were used underground to pull corves and tubs of coal along the roadways. • Different breeds and sizes of horse or pony were used underground depending on the task to be done. At the pit bottom, where many tubs had to be kept moving, 17 hand horses could be used. • Breeds varied considerably in different areas, but both Shetland and Welsh ponies were common. • It was unusual to have mares underground and geldings were generally used, although some stallions were kept.
Meet the Ponies
Finn
Ernie
Name: Finn
Name: Ernie
Born: 2008 Height: 17.3 hands
Born: 2004 Height: 12.2 hands
Finn is a Clydesdale horse. He has never worked in a coal mine, but horses of his size and type were once used in the mining industry to pull heavy loads of coal and to move materials on the surface. Heavy horses were also used to deliver coal to houses before the introduction of motor vehicles.
Ernie came to the Museum in 2007 with his friend Eric, following their rehabilitation at the RSPCA. Like Eric, Ernie has never worked in a coal mine, but had the ponies been born a century earlier, they would more than likely have been employed as pit ponies in the deep mines of their native Wales.
Eric Name: Eric Born: 2004 Height: 12.2 hands Eric arrived at the Museum in 2007. He was abandoned with Ernie on winter grazing in a coalfield area of Wales by his owner and was rescued subsequently by the RSPCA. Eric has never worked in a coal mine, but Welsh ponies like Eric were commonly used in deep mines.
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