Sentence examples for coal yard from inspiring English sources

His father was a laborer in a coal yard.

My dad had election premises, which were on Old Rutherglen Road, next to a coal yard.

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Snow was born in York, England, where his father worked as a labourer in a coal yard.

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Ms. Bodickowns one of five local marinas, the Milford Boat Works, a 200-slip site that her grandfather founded on a former coal yard in 1946.

Over the years, it has been lined by coal yards, chemical plants, heavy industry and tanneries, according to the E.P.A.

By the mid-19th century the East River waterfront had fallen far from its resort status, and coal yards, lumber mills and other industries dotted the shoreline, at least where there was good river access.

"If people had space back there and they happened to have empty yards next to them, like parking lots or coal yards, so they could easily get in and out without too much notice, then they built little houses in the back for extra income," Ms. Kellerman said.

The contamination, agency officials said, stems from the canal's history since its completion in the 1860s as a busy industrial waterway for the oil refineries, coal yards, concrete-mixing facilities and tanneries along its banks, and from being "a repository" of untreated industrial wastes and raw sewage and runoff.

And, sure enough, the mother who consumed novels and wore ostrich plumes died when he was 17, leaving him unprotected from the brutal Old World father (junk-dealing bootlegger) and the money-grubbing older brothers (coal yards, nursing homes, landfills) who were so contemptuous of his bookishness ("some schmuck with a pen," he would recall 40 years after the fact).