What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Dave Mann]

It took me a while to find it out because if you Google coal all you get are millions of entries about M Thatcher and the miner's strike. 1947 was a very severe winter with coal being rationed, (not many will remember that the mains voltage would drop and if you had a TV the picture would reduce in size) exports banned and the government was considering importing coal. Then in 1948 the newly formed NCB set about modernizing the coal industry, this was followed by the 1956 clean air act, ships and railways converting to diesel and homes to oil or gas, I was on the last Manchester Liners coal burner the Manchester Port in 1962. My parents exchanged their solid fuel Aga for an oil one in 1968.