Earning Extra Cash
I lived in Easington village in the 1950s and recall my brother and I would wait at the colliery gates for the trucks coming out to deliver coal to the miners' houses. There was a void up the centre of the back of the truck and when the driver was turning and creating a blind spot we would jump into the void and get a lift to the drop zone. We got 2 bob for shovelling a load into a hatch to the coal shed. Believe me, it was hard work, but honest.
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