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    What about coal-hole, we had our coal dumped under the stairs which led from the back kitchen !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty1 View Post
    What about coal-hole, we had our coal dumped under the stairs which led from the back kitchen !
    We had a grid at the front of the house that could be lifted to dump the coal into the cellar. For some reason we sometimes used a section of our back yard for coal storing, I think it may be due to the coal man's hailing coming from the front or back.

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    The Coalman came up the hall through our Kitchen out into the back Kitchen with a bloody Sack of Coal, as he dumped it the stour of dust landed everywhere and him as black as F***.

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    We used to do toast on extended forks in front of the coal fire.
    Aye, for Sunday Lunch too !

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    When we lived in one lot of tenements, there was a coal chute next to the front door and the coal was tipped into here which was basically a cupboard and accessed from inside the house, the hallway or lobby as we called it.

    In another part of Gerard Gardens we didn't have a chute but the coal was tipped directly into the cupboard which could only be accessed by the coal man actually coming into the lobby.

    We also had one of those round sieves and my dad would shovel the coal onto it and sieve the 'slack' out of it so that only the large lumps of coal - or sometimes coke was put on the fire.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty1 View Post
    The Coalman came up the hall through our Kitchen out into the back Kitchen with a bloody Sack of Coal, as he dumped it the stour of dust landed everywhere and him as black as F***.

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    Aye, for Sunday Lunch too !

    Marty, happy days,

    We couldn't afford bread, so me dad would slap a piece of lard on a chunk of cardboard, if it were our birthday he,d give us a scraping of coal dust on top.
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    We couldn't afford bread, so me dad would slap a piece of lard on a chunk of cardboard, if it were our birthday he,d give us a scraping of coal dust on top.
    What's Lard Chas ? You lot sound very Posh to me

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    What's Lard Chas ?
    The stuff yer fried yer bread with.

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    Toasting forks go with rattan carpet beaters, when the rug would be hung over the washing line.

    My mistake (first?) when helping rekindle the fire was to do the shovelling of the ash from under the great.

    "I'll just tip it in this bucket mum?...No, NO!!...not from that height...too late."

    The ash made a very satisfying muffled 'krumph' sound as it hit the bucket bottom...and then billowed out all over the room.
    "You're as bad as Scouse Linda!" Could have been the cry.

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    satisfying muffled 'krumph'
    Yes Oudeis, and not a very nice taste either !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty1 View Post
    the stour of dust landed everywhere
    Here's me thinking I'm good at English ! - - but I had to look that word up ! I've never heard of the word stour http://www.yourdictionary.com/stour

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    Thought I'd look it up myself, I don't know where it came from !

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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    Me and my mum still say parlour - which my husband finds highly amusing.
    .. and also because we say vestibule ! .. but we do have a vestibule - that's what it is called. The space between the front door and the door into your hallway - a vestibule !

    ps, Collegepudding, I always worried about the poor little fish in plastic bags. Very cruel,I hate to think what became of half of them. most people never knew how to look after fish properly - poor things stuck in a glass bowl.

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    would you believe it, the fair is at Newsham Park from tomorrow until Monday......probably complete with fish in bags aswell




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    My poor grandparents had cockroaches but thank goodness I never saw any!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diane Louise View Post
    My poor grandparents had cockroaches but thank goodness I never saw any!
    Cockroaches?

    Such is a real sign of affluence. Domestic vermin, the tell-tale sign of plenty, would only consider living in a veritable palace of warmth and plenty.

    Silver fish, on the other hand...

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