Essential safety equipment for riding in the '60s

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Spent much of the hols digitising over 1600 colour slides dug out of the family archives. A lot from the 1960s & 70s!
I discovered some early pics of my OH from her childhood when she was learning to deal with things equestre.

It's amusing how attitudes to riding saftey have changed over the years.

Obviously the essential piece of safety equipment for beginners was................ a tie in 1962.

& look at the size of that riding crop
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also this must be from about 1961 with her poney "Darkie" (awwww!)

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I guess the minute and loving attention to the poney's brush-up is one thing that hasn't change over the years
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That first one is crying out to be a caption competition

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Yes, you're right! - it could be

"Rightio gals, (sighs) Let's try that one more time then...."
 
Yes, you have a point about the tail docking.
I guess the poney was already quite old (15-20?) when my OH's parents purchased it for OH, so it would have been born just after (or during !) WWII.
 
I am in no doubt dwi is correct about caption, think we should all have think about it and come back with some corkers!!!

My eyes however took me to the foot wear!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Great pics...got any more?

Sadly I haven't as I was barely born!!!!

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There's over 1600 of them from 1960 to 1982. I won't be posting them all in one go
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Also have loads of prints & b/w negs from early 20th century up to the 60s. It's a big project to digitise & classify this lot, but it is a fascinating task.

I've promised Marius_Mum some nice sunsets I shot on the Gower coast at the end of the 70s. Am currently using one a desktop wallpaper and it's a very abstract and neutral shot !
Might out some of those in ful res on my website for other people to use if they want.

cheers
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How sweet, I used to have those yellow knitted polo neck jumpers too. My grandma would knit me a new one every year and the old one would be passed down to my brother. Is that a plaster cast on the right hand in the pony grooming photo. How little changes - my daughter is currently in a cast (but hers is bright pink!)
 
Great pics, I can remember having to wear a tie, and a hat with nothing to hold it on.

I'd love to see the gower pics as I lived there from 1979 for about 8 years. My brother now lives in Llanrhidian.
 
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How sweet, I used to have those yellow knitted polo neck jumpers too. My grandma would knit me a new one every year and the old one would be passed down to my brother. Is that a plaster cast on the right hand in the pony grooming photo. How little changes - my daughter is currently in a cast (but hers is bright pink!)

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I'll have to ask OH about that. It maybe the hand-band of the grooming brush plus a long sleeve shirt makes it look like a cast on her arm !
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Great pics, I can remember having to wear a tie, and a hat with nothing to hold it on.

I'd love to see the gower pics as I lived there from 1979 for about 8 years. My brother now lives in Llanrhidian.

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I'll post the Gower pics up soon - maybe next week on the Picture Gallery when I've recuperated them from the scanning PC which is down in Ain.
 
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Aawww... they're smashing pics.
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They had 'proper' blue skies back in the sixties didn't they?
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Thanks Jiffy - yes there are a lot of blue skies (even in Wales !!!) on those old slides, and despite the absence of "the Global Warming cult" and Jumbo Jets.
 
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