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Gee Gee

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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2011, 10:29:28 PM »
Phil,
     on one particular visit to the coke yard at Adderley St I had just got under the railway bridge at Sandy Lane,on the left hand side was a builders site, The floor was strewn with coke and obviously deserted.I was selling bags of coke for weeks

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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2011, 01:18:17 PM »
we used to save the coal slack and mix it with something Else not sure what it was and make it in to blocks then we would use so much coal and blocks
 
 
ps i think it was flour and it was made in an oxo tin
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Anne from Stirchley

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« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2011, 08:25:30 PM »
Steve, what did you do with them then?

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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2011, 08:38:44 PM »
He threw them at the coalman and pinched a sack of coal
 
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« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2011, 09:04:58 PM »
No he did not he cooked them in the fire!
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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2011, 10:20:40 AM »
Steve, what did you do with them then?
I built a wall
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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2011, 10:40:40 AM »
He warmed them up in the oven, wrapped them in cloth, and used them in bed as a hot water bottle, aint that right Steve ?   ;)

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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2011, 10:58:32 AM »
No Gibson, they got the sheets dirtier so used a blue paving brick. They hold the heat longer too. Hard to find these days though.
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« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2011, 11:14:56 AM »
Blue paving brick Steve ! !   You must have been posh up your end   :D

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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2011, 11:36:32 AM »
Hey Steve
 
When it was cold in bed we used a pop bottle full of hot water, not boiling because that cracked the bottle. Supplemented by a couple of railway overcoats on the bed. Not forces overcoats because there was no one in the forces in our house.
 
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Gee Gee

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Re: the coal yard
« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2011, 11:40:46 AM »
Hey phil,
Whats a bed?


 

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