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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.
