History | Working beside pit ponies | Mike Scanlon

Updated September 29 2017 - 9:47am, first published 9:30am
Tireless: Two Hunter Valley coal miners with a typical, hard-working pit horse.          Picture: University of Newcastle Cultural Collections
Tireless: Two Hunter Valley coal miners with a typical, hard-working pit horse. Picture: University of Newcastle Cultural Collections

PIT ponies were once the backbone of Hunter Valley underground mines.

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