Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Tylorstown Colliery, photograph
Farrier Harris Oxworth and his assistant Tommy Walters shoe one of the many colliery horses at Tylorstown No 9 Pit, 1914. Most collieries had several hundred horses at work and most of the shoeing took place in underground stables. The ostler was a very important official keeping the horses fit and ready for work.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
87.108I/24
Creation/Production
unknown
Date: 1914
Acquisition
Donation, 2/7/1987
Measurements
Length
(mm): 635
Width
(mm): 510
Material
paper
Location
In store
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