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Originally Posted by MargaretR
The coal merchants who delivered it would sometimes cheat.
It was wise to watch a delivery from the start because a common fiddle was to drop an empty sack outside the coal place to make it look like that sack had already been emptied, so you actually got one sack short.
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A bit off thread Margaret but connected to things subterranean, how you doing with the diggings for the water main on Rishton Road?
Forts Arms Beer Festival this weekend and Janice aka "The tattooed lady"
is worrying that the vibrations will upset the barrels on the racks.