History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

GB Last Year, I was paying £12.50: that was for Kellingley Deep-mined housecoal. However, alas, that is no more, Kellingley recently having closed.

It was only available to special order, the coal merchant told me he had about 30 customers who specifically requested UK mined coal, so we all had to have our deliveries at the same time: ie no choice of dates.

At the time, the default would have been bags of Columbian imported housecoal, which was about £1 a bag more expensive, and definitely inferior stuff, though maybe its excessive powderiness was down to the rigours of its long sea voyage.