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Tylorstown Colliery, photograph
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(Photographer)
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
Historical Associations
Association Type: Colliery
Date: 1914
Place: Tylorstown No.9 Pit
Creation/Production
Acquisition
donation, 2/7/1987
Measurements
Length
(mm): 635
Width
(mm): 510
Material
Paper
Location
In store
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