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Originally Posted by springs branch mickey
A few years ago I used to go to the gas works where we had a depot.
mickey
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We bought coke to burn on the fire at home. Sometimes a Saturday morning job for me was to push a big old pram a couple of miles to the "Gas Light & Coke Co" at Ponders End Gasworks to collect one hundredweight of coke priced 3s/6d (seventeen and a half p) Ask a ten year old kid to do that today.
