Coal deliveries?

This is one for @super_ram, @GrannyPie and maybe one or two others.

We had an outside coal house and my mum used to stand on the back doorstep of our "two up two down" terraced house while the coal men brought the coal off the lorry on their shoulders up the entry round the backs of all the houses to get to ours to dump it in the coal house and then fetch another. I think each sack was 1 cwt and we had around 20 which she stood and counted to make sure we weren't "diddled"

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Edited July 5, 201510 yr by tonyhateley

We still have them, two coal men come round here, one on a Tuesday and one on a Thursday. Just another reason living here is great, you don't have to reminisce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE

Coal deliveries?

This is one for @super_ram, @GrannyPie and maybe one or two others.

We had an outside coal house and my mum used to stand on the back doorstep of our "two up two down" terraced house while the coal men brought the coal off the lorry on their shoulders up the entry round the backs of all the houses to get to ours to dump it in the coal house and then fetch another. I think each sack was 1 cwt and we had around 20 which she stood and counted to make sure we weren't "diddled"

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Same here @tonyhateley and we'd sweep up the trail of coal dust etc that they left.No waste in those days.

No, luckily I don't but I think kids and teens of today could learn a lesson in hard work from doing something like this.

what? nooooooooooooooooo. why would i? it does look a very demanding job that i doubt many my age would be able or willing to do.

respect to the people who did it.

I've heard stories which include it, it doesn't look a very good job to be fair - pretty depressing actually.

I wonder how many suffered injuries from this sort of work, thank god things changed. @super_ram's father had a coal shed and a coal fire in his former home, he was also a miner back in the day. He told me quite a few stories about coal

@notts-joe don't listen to any stories you were told about miners and coal.... they will tell of a mysterious nasty woman from Grantham... it's a conspiracy I tell ya

Would this even pass health and safety these days?

How about

 

The Alpine Pop Man

 

fancy being sat at home having to wait for the pop man to come round so you could buy your Dandelion and Burdock

Edited July 5, 201510 yr by PTID1862

Coal deliveries?

This is one for @super_ram, @GrannyPie and maybe one or two others.

We had an outside coal house and my mum used to stand on the back doorstep of our "two up two down" terraced house while the coal men brought the coal off the lorry on their shoulders up the entry round the backs of all the houses to get to ours to dump it in the coal house and then fetch another. I think each sack was 1 cwt and we had around 20 which she stood and counted to make sure we weren't "diddled"

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Same here @tonyhateley and we'd sweep up the trail of coal dust etc that they left.No waste in those days.

Yes my dad and most of my adult male relatives were miners and had concessionary coal delivered as @tonyhateley describes.They were quite messy with the deliveries.