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"Coal" is a dirty word these days, but the actual physical stuff is quite beautiful, especially the hard dense, packed kind, anthracite. One of the things you learn as a steel town kid is all sorts of random shit about coal.
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And earlier, this nice wee haul of sea-coal, beachcombed out of the scatter-line at the high-water mark. (Explanation: twitter.com/Mikeachim/stat)
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My grandads were both Yorkshire miners. They received a monthly ton of coal as a ‘benefit’ part of their wages. They got the ‘good stuff’. Chunks the size of a house brick.
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Yorkshire coal is high quality. Burns hot. Their home was always warm. But if you weren't from a mining household then heating was expensive and it wasn't a wealthy community. My nan used to give coal to local families. Days long gone.
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