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Well, our local coal merchant is still going - we get weekly deliveries to feed our one remaining usable coal fire (house has gas-fired central heating, but the fire is more interesting - we just turn the radiator off and use it instead). There must be quite a few people still buying as the coalyard seems to be doing ok as a business. I'd say that you could have a small coal merchant still running today, though they'd probably get their supplies by road now. I suspect they'd be more common in rural areas too, as many people have coal-burning fires as a backup to their modern heating system - we've used ours as such in the rare event of a boiler breakdown, until the repairs could be made. I just wish we got decent coal - ours seems similar to the stuff they ran Polish steam locos on, we get loads of smoke and soot (thankfully not in the house, as there's a good draw on the chimney) and it's very dusty - not proper Welsh coal at all!
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