"Rufus found - out all night.
Registered baby - Henry Robert!
Got 2 cwt p.m. extra coal up to 7 April.
1 day A.L."
Some explanation of the third line may be necessary for ignorant foreigners and those too young to remember: We were being allocated an extra coal ration of two hundredweight per month until 7 April. A hundredweight is equal to 112 pounds in weight.
A.L. = Annual Leave.
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I remember the coal merchant delivering the coal in hundredweight sacks, but I have no idea how many a month we went through in a typical winter.
Yes, I remember that too, and for a short while in my first house (1973) I ordered it and had it delivered that way.
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