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From: Cardi2(a)aol.com <Cardi2(a)aol.com>
To: BlaenauGwent-L(a)rootsweb.com <BlaenauGwent-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 1:26 AM
Subject: Pit ponies
I read about the horses in the mines in your last list. My
grandfather was
a
draper (clothing merchant) in the Rhondda area of Glamorgan. He felt
it
was
disgraceful how they treated the pit ponies in the mines. They would
go
down
before the light of the day and come back up when it was dark. They
died
by
the 100's. He was very upset with the Society of the Prevention
of Cruelty
to
Animals (or whatever it was called in those days) because they would
do
nothing to make it better for the ponies. For the big mine owners, money
came
first; miners and ponies came last.
Annie
Hi Annie,
Coincidentally with your post above it was on the news here
(Wales) last night that two pit Ponies were "retiring" from a mine in the
Swansea Valley and going to live over the bridge in England with the RSPCA,
leaving a total of seven Pit Ponies still working in the entire United
Kingdom.....
regards
Huw
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