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Originally Posted by Nidge41
I'm with you on that one mate, can't beat the smell of burning coal in a morning when you open the door.
I come from a family of miners which stretch back hundreds of years. I remember the mornings when the smoke used to billow down the chimney when there was a wind.
Ah them were the days.
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They where in deed ,cleaning the ashes out before school and chopping the firewood on saturday morning, loved it (especially the axe)
.Of course these days kids would be taken into care if they where asked to do that these days
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Agree - we should go back to the good old days of asbestosis, mesothelioma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, miners' lung, pneumoconiosis, silicosis, etc etc.
Then we could move on and bring back rickets, TB, polio, dysentery, and cholera.
Ah, the good old days........
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Yes but ,as my dad would say ,"it will put hairs on your chest"