My father was a coalman and we delivered coke for the boilers for many years. |
He was the fifth of 16 children born to a coalman, and he shared a bedroom in the end-terrace house with three brothers. |
Originally the coalman used these rear entries and the dustmen without such problems but they were surely never intended to be used as part of the highways network. |
There are a lot of elderly people living in the country who depend on coal to heat their houses and depend on the coalman to deliver it to them. |
Former boxer and coalman Wray was one of a family of nine born in a slum in Glasgow's Gorbals. |
A This is a throwback to the days when the coalman delivered to properties along shared pathways. |