>> Most people outside London got a fairly generous dollop of free coal
>> - more than they could use I think.
>>
I grew up in housing with only open fires and a back boiler for water heating.
The miner next door's Household Coal allowance kept at least three houses going, even through heavy winters.
(Given it was dumped on the road, unbagged, (it was delivered by a dedicated tipper lorry divided transversely into allocations by wooden partitions) and we were up a significant flight of steps, one of my jobs was to load it into a tin bath, and, with help, deposit it in the various coal-houses, in return for part of the load).
....cue "Cardboard box?"........ ;-)
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