pit pony

While there, he was injured when kicked by a pit pony.

Coal at this time was brought to the surface by a team of 75 pit ponies.

Only two of the 25 pit ponies survived the disaster.

The cement workers bent like pit ponies to their task.

There is usually a pit pony on site and the museum has a significant collection of safety lamps.

Ah go on then, can we let the pit ponies have some air and send 6 year old children down in the mines again.

There is also a realistic stable with a miner, his pit pony and trailer.

To replace female and child labour the pit pony was more widely introduced.

Were they did pit ponies pull the pull the wagons?

In June 1999, production began for the second season of Pit Pony.

In the past, smaller ponies were used as pit ponies.

But tired old superintendents with less schooling than a pit pony, there's a different matter."

Over 100 pit ponies were being used at the colliery, mostly underground, but some on the surface.

Twenty-four miners and two pit ponies were drowned in the flood that followed.

In 1898, on 6 February, a huge explosion killed all the pit ponies but fortunately no miners.

Never on earth has a great social experiment turned so many women into so huge a herd of pit ponies.

It is possible to see former working pit ponies, ride the paddy train, follow the nature trail.

After coming back up to ground level, make sure you visit the pit ponies and join in Santa's reindeer hunt.

In the early 1900, a lot of ponies were exported to be used as pit ponies.

At this junction there is one of two pit pony watering holes on the east side of the mountain.

And you'll feel extra sympathy for the working pit ponies; once they entered the mine, they never again saw the light of day.

Pit Pony is a 1997 television film directed by Eric Till.

The colliery was one of the few in the area to use pit ponies, and in 1948 concerns were raised over their treatment.

He had spent his working life down the local pit and drove a pit pony when he first went underground.

We felt like pit ponies at Ascot.