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August 30, 2006 at 1:58 pm #1039054
Totally random I know but there was a proper old style coal lorry in the village where I work in today; (it was parked in the middle of the high street and causing a small jam!)
I was surprised to see it TBH – It was like riding into some scene from an old British movie….
I know coal is still used in power stations and big industry but this was parked outside someones house – I guess they were stocking up for winter; but didn’t think anyone still used coal in residential areas in 2006!
August 30, 2006 at 1:59 pm #1087943Can do one better.. when i was living in Dublin i used to get my coal delivered to me in the winter by an man with a horse and cart…. was well cool used to go feed the horse a carrot an polo mint hehe
August 30, 2006 at 2:02 pm #1087952We still get coal delivered,the lorry it turns up in isnt that old but the little Devonshire coalman looks and sounds like hes from about 1925.
August 30, 2006 at 3:19 pm #1087946i live in the sticks and we can still get our coal delivered to us in sacks weekly if we wanted coal that is:groucho: [cant use coal as it triggers my asthma]
August 31, 2006 at 6:10 am #1087951Up until 5 yrs ago when I still lived in me truck I had an old 1899 stratford gypsy queen stove in it and I burned coal on that it was great in the winter being parked up in the middle of nowhere with the fire burning just me an me Dog I would still be doing it if he had not of died makes me feel sad thinking about it cant believe its been 5 yrs this sept 3rd since he past on, strange how thinking about coal and fires brought all those memories back:cry:
August 31, 2006 at 8:02 am #1087945i live in a village out in da stix and we have a coal yard down tha road.
my grandad used to run a coal delivery service on a horse and cart in liverpool back in tha day.
August 31, 2006 at 8:18 am #1087953HARTY wrote:Up until 5 yrs ago when I still lived in me truck I had an old 1899 stratford gypsy queen stove in it and I burned coal on that it was great in the winter being parked up in the middle of nowhere with the fire burning just me an me Dog I would still be doing it if he had not of died makes me feel sad thinking about it cant believe its been 5 yrs this sept 3rd since he past on, strange how thinking about coal and fires brought all those memories back:cry:Thats brought a few memories back for me too,spent a few happy years living in an old Bedford Bread lorry with a threepenny bit cab.Always very cozy.soon be time for lighting fires in the day here and stamping in the mud at night.If they let us!!!
August 31, 2006 at 5:10 pm #1087944GL – you make me laugh!!
We still have our coal delivered by the coal man from the railway yard once a month.
It has got dearer in the last five years, but is still cheaper than gas. Not too sure on the carbon footprint tho, and am looking forward to having enough capital to go threeway green – wind/solar/heat exchanger.
However, I have to admit, the old boy doesn’t do that much business….
You will no doubt be seeing your antique truck most weeks from now until May time.
Hows yer cold?
D
September 1, 2006 at 7:42 am #1087940TBH I don’t think the truck was that old, but that was definitely the first time in my life I had seen a coal lorry other than in books or telly/movies!
I guess that until now I haven’t lived or worked far out enough in the sticks to see one.
Didn’t realise they were still quite common for residential houses…
( I have since found out where it was coming from and it would have been by near the railway yard although the station is long gone now..)
September 12, 2006 at 8:48 am #1087954If anyone can fix it for me to spend a day helping a coalman sometime, there’d be a reward for both them and the coalman. As long as he has a proper lorry, smokes and I can get properly grimy, I’d go anywhere!
September 12, 2006 at 9:32 am #1087947just walk up to one and ask mate – if you want to hump 25kg bags of coal for them i am sure they would be delighted :groucho:
September 21, 2006 at 3:17 pm #1087941I saw an “Emo Oil” lorry today!
It was a bit disappointing though, just a bog standard lorry and driver in Shell colours.
I was expecting the driver to be dressed in black (perhaps with makeup), and going on about how unfair the world was – traffic was heavy and oil is nasty and messy; and the emotional turmoil of how driving a big truck can make you popular with the girls – but they also hate you and talk about you behind their backs because you’re killing the environment….
:crazy_dru
September 21, 2006 at 4:57 pm #1087949get my coal delivered by a bloke called Kim on his narrow boat,he spends all year going up and down selling diesel and coal and brings it down from birmingham on the grand union canal to the thames,his coal is about a £1 cheaper than the shops and buying it off him keeps going what little there is left of an almost dead trade.
September 21, 2006 at 5:03 pm #1087948General Lighting wrote:I saw an “Emo Oil” lorry today!It was a bit disappointing though, just a bog standard lorry and driver in Shell colours.
I was expecting the driver to be dressed in black (perhaps with makeup), and going on about how unfair the world was – traffic was heavy and oil is nasty and messy; and the emotional turmoil of how driving a big truck can make you popular with the girls – but they also hate you and talk about you behind their backs because you’re killing the environment….
:crazy_dru
hehehehe:laugh_at::laugh_at:
shattered preconceptions hey GL? [hope you werent too attached to them :wink:]
September 22, 2006 at 11:04 pm #1087950General Lighting wrote:I saw an “Emo Oil” lorry today!It was a bit disappointing though, just a bog standard lorry and driver in Shell colours.
I was expecting the driver to be dressed in black (perhaps with makeup), and going on about how unfair the world was – traffic was heavy and oil is nasty and messy; and the emotional turmoil of how driving a big truck can make you popular with the girls – but they also hate you and talk about you behind their backs because you’re killing the environment….
:crazy_druEveryone knows emos can’t drive. the fringe obscures the vision too badly.
September 22, 2006 at 11:24 pm #1087942the rev wrote:Everyone knows emos can’t drive. the fringe obscures the vision too badly.picturing the skipper shouting “where are taking that sack?”
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