Please note that we have temporarily paused our iconic Underground Tours until April 2025, to install a brand new winding engine. The Museum remains open with a brand-new Time Tunnel experience now bookable.
This black and white photograph shows Mr Ronald Ives at Old Roundwood pit with a horse in harness in the pit yard.
Mr Ives was a blacksmith and farrier, and would look after the showing of the ponies. Skilled farriers would cold shoe, allowing them to work underground.
