[Talk-GB] Soild fuel

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Mon Feb 3 18:24:03 UTC 2020


On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 13:47 +0000, SK53 wrote:
> There's one fairly close to me (or at least their sign is still
> there, I've not recently verified that they still exist). We used
> shop=coal (but see below), which is not far off the more generic
> shop=fuel.
> 
> It's over 20 years ago since I bought coal. I ordered it and was
> delivered, perhaps 1 cwt which lasted the winter. I think that's how
> most solid fuel will be sold, so most are not really shops but coal
> merchants yards. I have no idea how these should be tagged, but shop
> is probably not particularly correct. Similar things will be true for
> suppliers of LPG or Oil for heating systems in rural areas. In Spain
> people used to buy butane for cooking (probably still do) largely
> through Butano SA which became a Repsol subsidiary. I ought to know
> how this worked as a relative worked for them, but don't. I suspect
> it's possible to get regular deliveries (just like the old Corona
> vans - fizzy pop I hasten to add).
> 
I did discover that big customers for my local one are heritage
railways, obvious as there are several not far away. Severn Valley and
Llangollen being the big ones.

You can go there and buy domestic coal too, although the days of the
coal man that I remember are long gone.

Phil (trigpoint)
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