Project365-5

Project365-5
Originally uploaded by CrazyDave53

Anybody brought up in the old terraced houses should remember the coal house hatch, used by the coalmen to put coal directly into your coalhouse from the backlane. I can recall when I was kid and mothers then used to hang their washing in the backlanes (there was no chance of it getting pinched in them days) we used to listen for the coalman or the binman coming then run down the back lane shouting "missus be quick, the coalmans coming" enabling them to get their washing in before it got marked from the coal van. We often used to get rewarded for this with the occassional homemade biscuit and if we were lucky an old penny, I know it doesnt sound much but it was a lot in the last 50's