The Horses

Museum horse at work

Next to the Bottle & Glass Inn is the Carter's Yard. The tack-room and stable block were moved to the Museum and they are brought to life by the horses which are kept there.

Horses were once the key to transport in the Black Country. They hauled canal boats laden with goods, dragged trams through the streets and pulled delivery carts for coal, bread, milk and other produce. Thousands of ponies once worked in coal mines, transporting coal from the pit face to the bottom of the shaft.

Our horses have never had to work in this way, but you can find them in the Carter’s Yard and around the Museum, bringing life to the stables, the paddocks and the canal arm.