Lily.’ * ‘Where has all that coal come from in the shed?’ her mother exclaimed later that night when she opened the door to scratch around for a few lumps at the back and was met by a black mountain. Lily had called into the coal merchant’s immediately she’d alighted from the bus. The coalman was busy, told her everyone came in for extra fuel once the Christmas money started to arrive. ‘I never heard him shouting. Did
