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Coalmen/coal yards

The Knight family (my gt gt grandparents ran a coal yard at the side of the cut in Glover St.
In 1921, Gt grandad was in court for raking the canal bed and taking a load of coal back home in a wheelbarrow. Entreprenurial? Maybe, but it was alleged he and fellow boatmen used to "accidentally" lose coal from the barge after some of their cargo "fell" overboard to be later recovered with a rake.........
Just looking after the family in very poor times
 
bestcover said:
The Knight family (my gt gt grandparents ran a coal yard at the side of the cut in Glover St.
In 1921, Gt grandad was in court for raking the canal bed and taking a load of coal back home in a wheelbarrow. Entreprenurial? Maybe, but it was alleged he and fellow boatmen used to "accidentally" lose coal from the barge after some of their cargo "fell" overboard to be later recovered with a rake.........
Just looking after the family in very poor times
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Quite creative I would say!
 
bestcover said:
The Knight family (my gt gt grandparents ran a coal yard at the side of the cut in Glover St.
In 1921, Gt grandad was in court for raking the canal bed and taking a load of coal back home in a wheelbarrow. Entreprenurial? Maybe, but it was alleged he and fellow boatmen used to "accidentally" lose coal from the barge after some of their cargo "fell" overboard to be later recovered with a rake.........
Just looking after the family in very poor times
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I went to school with a Martin Knight in the 60s
 
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