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Old 29-08-2013, 17:24   #12
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Re: Price of coal & nutty slack

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Originally Posted by DtheP47 View Post
How much was a bag of coal then Mog delivered to the Mog family home? I assume a bag was a hundredweight (cwt) ? Could coal workers get cheaper coal than Joe public?
I had a mate in those days Dave who owned a coal business, I sometimes went out delivering with him on Saturday mornings, that was around 1970 the price then was around 6 shillings a seven pence,
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