Pony Collection

Children pony trekking, Horner, Somerset
Children pony trekking at Horner, Exmoor, Somerset. Date: circa 1980s

Coal / Durham Pit Pony
Pitmen hewing the coal, South Durham : a pit pony waits to haul the coal away

Tatler front cover featuring Princess Elizabeth & Margaret o
Front cover of The Tatler featuring the fourteenth birthday picture of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) together with her sister, Princess Margaret Rose

Haulier and assistant, Baldwins Level, South Wales
A haulier and his assistant, with a pit pony pulling a truck, at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, near Pontypool, South Wales

Women Playing Polo
A womans polo hat flies off and her horse rears up as she strikes the ball in a polo match

Horse and Boxer dog
Unusual Friends - horse and Boxer dog. 1950s

Queen Elizabeth II with horse at Sandringham
Queen Elizabeth II, when Princess Elizabeth, pictured with one of the horses during harvest time at Sandringham, Norfolk in 1943. Date: 1943

Poster, Ransomes Lawnmowers, sold by Broughton & Wilks, Banbury. circa 1900s

Tatler front cover / Prince Philip, July 1962
Prince Philip playing polo for Windsor Park against Silver Leys, photographed for the front cover of The Tatler in 1962. A well-known and skilful polo player

Omsk - Western Siberia - Kazakh children in front of their yurt tent Date: circa 1903

Breaking Up a Rush - Polo by Gilbert Holiday
The glamour and thrill of the galloping game depicted by equestrian artist Gilbert Holiday, showing an incident during an Inter-Regimental Polo match where the ball

Pit Ponies in Retirement - Plum & Danny with Alfred Brisco (Organising Secretary). Card issued on behalf of The National Equine Defence League. Date: circa late 1930s

The Queen salutes on horseback
The Queen salutes whilst taking part in the Birthday Parade at Buckingham Palace after the ceremonial Trooping of the Colour. She wears the uniform of the Grenadier Guards. Date: 1956

Chung Ling Soo (real name William Robinson). The other side of the previously shown circular flyer showing a portrait of Soo in the centre of a Willow Pattern Plate

Two horses in the snow. circa 1890s

Prince Philip & Prince Michael of Romania riding
Prince Philip of Greece & Denmark, later Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II (born 1921), seen as a young boy (far right), riding a pony on the beach, accompanied by his eldest sister

Wilpshire Orphanage, Blackburn, Lancashire
Children, including one on a pony, stand outside the Blackburn and Orphanage at Wilpshire, near Blackburn. Date: Date unknown

Cadogan Riding School advertisement
Advertisement for the Cadogan Riding School at Little Cadogan Place, SW1, a riding school for society children. Date: 1928

Town Crier in pony and trap, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
James Smith, Town Crier of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in pony and trap. Seen here passing the butchers shop owned by J Potter, where cuts of meat are on display

Herr Seeth and his performing animals, London Hippodrome
Herr Julius Seeth, lion tamer, in the arena at the London Hippodrome with two of his lions forming behind him with ponies and dogs. Date: 1903

Captain F. O. Grenfell V. C. of the 9th Lancers
Grenfell was 33 years old, and a Captain in the 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed during the Action of Elouges took place for which he was

Cat and horse enjoying the sunshine
A cat and a horse appear as if they are having a conversation as they enjoy the sunshine. Date: 20th century

Polo player
An Arab polo pony, named Ali Baba, with rider Audrey Haines

Miss Libbys Fruits - Peaches
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Miss Libbys Fruits - Peaches. circa 1950s

Princess Elizabeth meets a pony at the Richmond Horse Show
June 15th 1934 - Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022) meets a champion pony at the Richmond Horse Show (a class of entry she was apparently particularly interested in). Date: 1934

Shipping Shetland Ponies
Transporting a small herd of Shetland Ponies in a modest-sized sailing boat. Date: circa 1906

Horse Drawn Haymaking
Turning the hay using a a pony- drawn reaper, near Reigate, Surrey

Dartmoor Ponies at Hound Tor (famed for ancient dwellings, graves and ghosts!) - now registered as a rare breed Date: circa 1930s

Scottish Caravan Site
Cairnsmill Dairy Farm (Holiday Camp) Caravan Site, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland. Here caravanners can enjoy television in the upper barn and children free pony rides

Curry&rice / Officer Rides
A young officer prepares to go riding. A servant puts the final touches to his uniform while another holds his pony which is far too small for him

Man in pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore
A man wearing a cloth cap sits in a pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. Horse transport is often used as taxis on the islands Date: 1991

Master Franz Ebert, German actor-comedian on a pony Date: 1890s

The Dolly Sisters and Laddie Cliff in Jig-saw at Hippodrome
Page from The Tatler featuring photographs of the delectable Dolly Sisters performing their first London revue, Jig-saw at the London Hippodrome

Cowboy riding on horse for the Pony Express Mail Service Date: 1859

Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada - Railway Station of the GTR (The Grand Trunk Railway). Date: circa 1910s

Horse beneath the trees in field in the village of Nettleton
A horse framed beneath the trees in a field in the village of Nettleton, Lincolnshire, England. The Daily Telegraph Aug 1991 Date: 1991

Pit pony in a coal mine

Coal mine pit pony Victorian period

Bampton Exmoor Pony Fair early 1900s

Bampton Pony Fair, early 1900s

Shetland ponies and a croft, Shetland Isles, Scotland, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Brookley Watersplash, Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Haytor Rock, Dartmoor, Devon - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

The Devil's Elbow, Dartmoor, Devon - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Ponies near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Silver Birches, New Forest, Hampshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Two young children, a pony and their nurse - Oddington House
Two young Talbot Rice children (brother and sister, David Arthur and Cecil Penelope) with a pony, accompanied by their nurse (Nurse Dunning) - Oddington House, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire

Transporting the mail, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa, in 1904

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