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Brockmoor Carters Yard

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History
Horses and the Titanic anchor
Other information
References

Brockmoor Carters Yard is a yard and stable at the Black Country Living Museum. It was originally located at Ogley Hay Road Burntwood, Cannock, having been built around 1900. It was dismantled and brought to the museum in the 1990s.^[1]^[1]

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.

Horses 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, Birmingham.^[1]

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 railways, like Willenhall maintained their horse and waggon deliveries into the late 1940s.^[2]

Horses and the Titanic anchor

Up to 20 horses pulled the anchor for the {{RMS|Titanic||2}}. 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 anchor is still attached to the wrecked ship under the sea.^[3]

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^[3]

References

1. ^¹{{cite web |title=The Carters Yard |url=http://www.bclm.co.uk/locations/carters-yard/27.htm#.UYOQB7WkptF |work=Interactive Map |publisher=Black Country Living Museum |accessdate=3 May 2012}}
2. ^{{cite book |last=Rowlands |first=[by] Marie B. |title=Masters and men : in the West Midland Metalware trades before the industrial revolution |year=1975 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |isbn=0719005825}}
3. ^¹²{{cite web |title=Carters Yard |url=http://www.bclm.co.uk/media/locations/library/cartersyard-information.pdf |work=Fact Sheet |publisher=Black Country Living Museum |accessdate=3 May 2013}}

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