Lazy Grange Bay 3...a new start
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AustrianNG
Director of my railway
Nice outside khazi Mr D ! 
Ta Paul!!!Nice outside khazi Mr D !
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
I get the khazi, but being a southerner, what's the other bits attached to the wall?
Probably from a posh Northern Town, Harrogate perhaps.
Presumably it was easier to build than a a coal hole into a cellar, as was more normal in London
DafyddElvy
1:22.5 & 15mm Scale Trams, , NG Steam Railways
Not sure I would call that posh, when I started doing something with the back garden of the previous house I found a flat area my wife said had the coal cubby in times gone by, I think the posh homes had cellars and homeowners didn't need to go outside to get a bucket of coal.
Ah yes, my Nan lived in a not too posh area of Wakefield and had a cellar for the coal with a metal topped coal hole In the pavement. However not all homes had or even could have cellars, hence outside coal bins.
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
I did wonder.
The house where I was born, that my parents rented, had a cellar, as did many, with coal chutes at ground level under the front windows. So you went down stairs to the cellar to fill up the coal scuttle, and it was b****y cold
Madman
Registered
As a kid, I loved to visit my paternal grandmother in South Philadelphia. Her house was heated by a coal furnace in the cellar. The coal delivery was made by a truck that had compartments in the dump portion. Quarter ton, half ton or full ton could be dumped down the chute, through a window and into the coal bin, which was nothing more than a wood partition built in the front of the cellar.
When I come down in the morning and raise the thermostat, I often think of her. No thermostat, cleaning ashes from the furnace, then shoveling new coal in. Carrying the ashes up the stairs, through the house to the street, to be collected.....
When I come down in the morning and raise the thermostat, I often think of her. No thermostat, cleaning ashes from the furnace, then shoveling new coal in. Carrying the ashes up the stairs, through the house to the street, to be collected.....
JimmyB
Now retired - trains and fishing
My next door neighbour had the same, whereas our house and the other neighbour had a "lean-to" in the yard for coal.I did wonder.
The house where I was born, that my parents rented, had a cellar, as did many, with coal chutes at ground level under the front windows. So you went down stairs to the cellar to fill up the coal scuttle, and it was b****y cold
Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
As a young lad living in Leeds, our house had a coal delivery hatch on the side, that went into the coal hole under the stairs.
However, by then, we were cooking on (later natural) gas, and the coal hole was used as a store cupboard....
However, by then, we were cooking on (later natural) gas, and the coal hole was used as a store cupboard....
penylanpip
Registered
Yup, we had that facility in one house in Newport, but in another house it was slightly less high-tech - they just tipped the coal through a manhole in the pavement, straight into the cellar. Rather dusty in there for an hour or so after...
