Electric/gas man/collector

[postie]

Remember the exitement when the electric man was due.
He would sit at the kitchen table and tip all the money out of the collecting box.
Not all of it was legal tender either, there were allways afew washers or foreign coins included. :shock:

He would work out how much the electric cost and then work out how much rebate was due. Iused to get a shilling off my mom if Ipromised not to tell my dad that the man had been. :wink:
Idon't think mom got a great amount back, but it helped to feed and clothe us at times. :roll:

 

[sylviasayers]

Electric/Gas Money

, you brought back memories for me of when the gas man came to empty our gas meter, this was located in the cellar, how I hated having to
go down there to feed the large old pennies into it, carrying a candle which
flickered and threw all sorts of shadows on the wall, dodging cobwebs and
any creepy crawlies. It must have been heavy work for the gas man carrying all those coppers around in his large leather bag, something like a doctor's bag. He counted all the pennies into piles of 12 = one old shilling, there was usually a rebate of a few coppers and I was usually lucky enough to be given 3d or 6d for a comic or sweets.