Brockmoor Carters Yard is a yard and stable at the

Black Country Living Museum The Black Country Living Museum (formerly the Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England.

. It was originally located at Ogley Hay Road

Burntwood Burntwood is a former mining town and civil parish in the Lichfield District in Staffordshire, England, approximately west of Lichfield and north east of Brownhills. The town had a population of 26,049 and forms part of Lichfield distric ...

Cannock Cannock () is a town in the Cannock Chase district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It had a population of 29,018. Cannock is not far from the nearby towns of Walsall, Burntwood, Stafford and Telford. The cities of Lichfield and Wolv ...

, having been built around 1900. It was dismantled and brought to the museum in the 1990s.

History

Horses were key for transport in the Black Country; they also pulled trams, coaches, milk floats, coal carts, canal boats and fire engines. Industry made the Black Country but horses kept it moving.

Horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...

s would have been stabled close to their trade in a yard. The Carters Yard at the Black Country Living Museum is a prime example. The Carters Yard contains a stable carefully dismantled and moved from Burntwood, Cannock. It stood in the backyard of a cottage in Ogley Hay Road and was probably built in 1900. The building was donated to the museum in the 1990s. The stable fittings were from a coach house and stable which was located in Handsworth Wood Road,

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. With the advent of the motorcar and petrol engine lorries, horse transport declined. Despite this decline, horses still remained at work well into the twentieth century. Some

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

s, like

Willenhall Willenhall is a market town situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England, with a population taken at the 2011 census of 28,480. It is situated between Wolverhampton and Walsall, historically in the county of ...

maintained their horse and waggon deliveries into the late 1940s.

Horses and the ''Titanic'' anchor

Up to 20 horses pulled the anchor for the . The anchor was made in May 1911 at Noah Hingley’s works in Netherton. The anchor, weighed 16 tons, and was delivered to the railway yard at Netherton from where it was to continue the rest of its journey to the shipyards in Belfast. Hingley’s used 6 of its own horses - massive animals weighing over a ton in weight the equivalent to a

shire horse The Shire is a British breed of draught horse. It is usually black, bay, or grey. It is a tall breed, and Shires have at various times held world records both for the largest horse and for the tallest horse. The Shire has a great capacity for ...

. The anchor is still attached to the wrecked ship under the sea.

Other information

* If the load is on a 2-wheeled cart, it’s about 1.5 times its own weight * If the load is on a 4-wheeled cart, it’s 2 times its own weight * If the load is on water, it’s about 10 times its own weight

References

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