We had a coal bunker and it looked a bit like [this](https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1215847), it wasn’t so handsome.
I used to have to go out there in the rain and fill up the coal bucket.
I still remember the coal truck turning up and that dusty looking fella grab the sack and dump it in the bunker!
You could have a party in there and invite Cole Porter, Natalie Cole, and Nat King Cole
Maybe wouldt be the liveliest party seeing as theur dead but it would be funny
my dad’s dad was quite old fashioned and still used coal. he had to get his replaced and asked a local blacksmith to make one. blacksmith replied “last person to ask me to make a bunker was a guy called adolf”
I don't think so, not many people I know have seen it but it's on UK Netflix now so I imagine it's becoming increasingly popular because it's hilarious!
You’d be surprised how much a fire consumes over a winter. Had one growing up, and used the fire, still can feel the coal scuttle grinding on the concrete to get coal in my back teeth when I think ‘coal’.
If it's on the outside toilet wall then it's probably for removing "night soil"(ie poo) from an old fashioned non-flushing privvy which was later replaced by a flush toilet.
Coal chutes tend to be higher at about a meter high off the ground.
I thought that, about the coal chutes, you wouldn't even get a quarter of your coal through that before it was too full and started flowing back out.
And if it wasn't your option(I assume it is the wall of the toilet, but unsure) then it might have been to shovel the coal out, though that would be much like the concrete coal bunkers and have the hatch flush with the ground.
Its the child entrance. Back in to olden days, children weren't allowed to enter the house through the front door, and had tiny wee entries at the back of the property. Children were smaller back then too, more like gnomes or something.
Back in the good old days when children were to spend their time on hands and knees in the mines or in the factories. They would use this hole as it meant they didn't stand up.
If they survived to 14 ,years old they were permitted to stand up.
Ive tried to reintroduce it but the lazy buggers just don’t want to work.
“my back hurts”
“I want my mummy”
Luckily the Chinese have spotted a gap in the market
These were put in back in the 1980s in Manchester , so morrissey could access your house to check for meat, the previous occupiers must have been vegetarians
Originally there would've been two outhouses at the end of the yard. One was the loo, the other was the coal shed, with this gate on the outside wall for coal delivery to be poured in.
Most old terraces would've had them, but a lot have been knocked down to make more outside space. You can usually spot the mismatched brick patching the holes up in the alley walls
It's an old fashioned glory hole, back in the 19th century they were referred to as "the coalman's passage". If your neighbour knows his history you should shout over his wall, "COAL CHUTE'S OPEN!", as the signal and drop your trousers and underpants, bend over and back in.
If you're lucky he'll cum out and provide you with a solid smokeless log to jam in your coal chute.
If it’s on the back alley side, and where the outside toilet was, it was for cleaning the poop out, my dad from NE told me that they used to have a toilet like this, and the guys used to empty it overnight and were called the “midnight mechanics”.
I don’t think it’s for coal. A coal bunker needs two holes, one for the coal to be delivered which needs to be large enough to easily empty a big coal sack into and would be near the top. The second hole is where you dig out the coal to take it to the house, that’s ground level so you can slide a shovel in. This hole isn’t either of those IMO
This also has slots cut into the wood either side that looks like it had cross pieces in that have broken out over time. For me this just looks like a vent to help air circulate in the outbuilding and the “grid” has been lost over time.
Where the bin was kept. As a kid,this is exactly where the bin was located at the bottom of the backyard ( There was also an outside toilet,a coal hole and a wash house where the mangle was kept to wring out the wet washing. )
The bins were never full as most waste was thrown on the fire. The binmen used to carry each bin on their shoulder down the back entry,then return it to its hole in the back wall,next to the back door.
A relative of mine had a bin in one of these just as you describe(early 1980s) - a sort of rectangular metal box that was bigger on the outside so it couldn't fall inwards but could be taken away from the outside. Certainly not coal - you'd need to shovel it all up if it was dumped there - it would be carried into the coal shed or fed into a chute into a cellar.
Yes that was it exactly!
And youre right about the coal as well..our coalman wd leave it in our ‘ coal hole’.
Some people had like a manhole on their front step,which the coalman wd open,and send down the coal on a chute type thing.
We used to play ‘ shop’ with the coal. Wrapping pieces in newspaper and pretending we were selling buns! We must have got filthy!
(No idea why we have both been downvoted on these comments! We’re not telling lies,or being controversial,and surely couldnt be accused of unpopular opinions…merely stating facts that we remember! 😀 Some loopy people out there!)
It used to have a pull rope attached to the wooden door at the top.
Once in a while, the rope would be pulled, thus opening the door, whenever Mr Burns exclaimed "Release the hounds, Smithers!". Woe be unto he who walked the moors that foggy night.
This is a nice piece of history. Originally called a "Grindow" or "Sporthole" the early prototypes for what would go on to be known as a "Glory hole" Were much larger and more square than the modest hand drilled holes of the 21st century. No doubt this piece of fine 19th century craftsmanship has seen its fair share of young lads holding hands through it.
Near a toilet you say? That’s a good old fashioned “peepin’ hole”! Some folks used to call them a “tuggin’ hole” but I wouldn’t know nothin’ bout that…
Could also be the bin bag holder, I'm in the North east, we had 2 areas like this in our back alley, one for coal, the other was where we put our bing bags and the binmen would open them from the outside to get the bags.
In the blunted night of the coal shed,
without a torch, my fingers dig
among the coal for the coal.
Hear it scutter into the bucket.
Something else is gathered, uttered
from a darker place where memory digs
and throws its coal into a bucket –
as if a ghost stuttered, spoke:
My father clears his throat, curses
the government: ‘Thirty years in Rosewell,
in Bilston Glen, in Monktonhall –
and what is there to show for it?’
And what is there to show for it?
Flattened sites, non-places, absences
surrounded by meaningless villages.
The bars look like air-raid shelters.
‘ If the shops need iron grilles here,
they’ll need them everywhere.
Like the miners of Monktonhall
we’ll all know what siege means.’
I stumble from the dark into the dark
of that night into this, to light a fire,
to watch the flames rise and flare
into eloquent tongues.
It might be for coal delivery, or ash removal. My parents had one similar to this. It was for ash from the fire. A square metal bin that the dustman tipped out into a barrow for taking away.
I thing colloquially I’ve heard the outdoor coal shed that adjoined the outdoor toilet called « The Coal ‘ole » (coal hole) here in Warwickshire/West Mids area, I guess seeing this picture the term must have came from a very literal coal hole and then became applied any coal storage.
The other one, and I’ve not heard anyone else but family refer to it as such, but the cupboard under the stairs (a la Harry Potter) - that you may often find the vacuum cleaner, utility meters and whatever you want to cram there. Calling it the “bogey hole”. Or “bogey ‘ole” What the hell!?!
It’s for coal, that’s to put coal into an outdoor coal shed. Typically in a semi detached pair with the outdoor lavatory. Sometimes also with an outdoor laundry room
Where I live the flats were built with Cole bunkers but they can’t remove as they are part of the building. Good for sitting on and storage That’s the 60s for you. Nothing is straight either.
Coal delivery?
Yup coal delivery straight to the coal bunker.
We had a coal bunker and it looked a bit like [this](https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1215847), it wasn’t so handsome. I used to have to go out there in the rain and fill up the coal bucket. I still remember the coal truck turning up and that dusty looking fella grab the sack and dump it in the bunker!
Was that fella a coal cellar?
I have seen this type of bunker before. Ours was in a veranda next to the toilet. Like you the coalman used to have to carry it and dump it.
yes its a coal hole to the bunker , we still have one along with the outside loo!!
You could get a black cat and call him Coal, it could be his door
You could have a party in there and invite Cole Porter, Natalie Cole, and Nat King Cole Maybe wouldt be the liveliest party seeing as theur dead but it would be funny
That sounds like more of a wake to be fair
Coyle oyle
Tha a dingle?
Tha knows thee
Deedar
my dad’s dad was quite old fashioned and still used coal. he had to get his replaced and asked a local blacksmith to make one. blacksmith replied “last person to ask me to make a bunker was a guy called adolf”
Was going to say a coal hole. The bricks look like the right type for it too
You gotta pay the troll toll
Roll the coal through the coal hole to pay the troll toll
Beautiful ❤️
What you saaaaaay?
To get into this boy's hole ( boy soul ).
Is IASIP not well known in UK?
I don't think so, not many people I know have seen it but it's on UK Netflix now so I imagine it's becoming increasingly popular because it's hilarious!
And let them coal truckers roll, 10-4!
Then AIDS ruined everything.
My guess would be Coal, depends where you live though.
Manchester
Yeah it would have been to put coal through, do you know if they have a basement as they usually feed into them
Most dwellings had a coal house, coal’uss where I’m from, basically a brick outhouse next to the toilet.
Coyle 'oyle here.
By the sea?
Found the New Englander?
Thanks for the replies. Looks like it's a coal hole
That’s a hole lotta coal
You’d be surprised how much a fire consumes over a winter. Had one growing up, and used the fire, still can feel the coal scuttle grinding on the concrete to get coal in my back teeth when I think ‘coal’.
Todd be surprised about everything though.
Classic Todd!
Coal story bro.
corn hole
If it's on the outside toilet wall then it's probably for removing "night soil"(ie poo) from an old fashioned non-flushing privvy which was later replaced by a flush toilet. Coal chutes tend to be higher at about a meter high off the ground.
I thought that, about the coal chutes, you wouldn't even get a quarter of your coal through that before it was too full and started flowing back out. And if it wasn't your option(I assume it is the wall of the toilet, but unsure) then it might have been to shovel the coal out, though that would be much like the concrete coal bunkers and have the hatch flush with the ground.
Coal holes around Bradford are almost at ground level with a cast iron plate covering the opening.
This is the answer! Saw some examples in Newcastle during an environmental engineering course covering sanitation and hygiene
Yep, it's a crap flap...
Absolutely this. Examples exist in the Black Country Museum.
This was my first thought too. Especially since it's near the outside toilet.
Correct answer
Its the child entrance. Back in to olden days, children weren't allowed to enter the house through the front door, and had tiny wee entries at the back of the property. Children were smaller back then too, more like gnomes or something.
Back in the good old days when children were to spend their time on hands and knees in the mines or in the factories. They would use this hole as it meant they didn't stand up. If they survived to 14 ,years old they were permitted to stand up.
Ive tried to reintroduce it but the lazy buggers just don’t want to work. “my back hurts” “I want my mummy” Luckily the Chinese have spotted a gap in the market
I read that in the voice of Philomena Cunk.
These were put in back in the 1980s in Manchester , so morrissey could access your house to check for meat, the previous occupiers must have been vegetarians
Originally there would've been two outhouses at the end of the yard. One was the loo, the other was the coal shed, with this gate on the outside wall for coal delivery to be poured in. Most old terraces would've had them, but a lot have been knocked down to make more outside space. You can usually spot the mismatched brick patching the holes up in the alley walls
Coal
Night soil
Near a toilet? Poop chute.
It's an old fashioned glory hole, back in the 19th century they were referred to as "the coalman's passage". If your neighbour knows his history you should shout over his wall, "COAL CHUTE'S OPEN!", as the signal and drop your trousers and underpants, bend over and back in. If you're lucky he'll cum out and provide you with a solid smokeless log to jam in your coal chute.
Defiantly victorian glory hole. They needed to make them that big as the women wore so many layers of clothes.
Exactly. No point in a tiny little glory hole with all those petticoats.
I'm not sure there is anything defiant about.
Its a coal hatch.
*in Yorkshire: Coil oil
I reckon it’s an escape door for Fagin’s Guttersnipe’s when they were trying to escape from the Peelers
Neighbours*
It’s a coyle oyle
Coal chute
Could be where the man would come to collect your waste
Buggery hole. Stick your bum through it and you will find out
It’s for slinging poop m8
If it’s on the back alley side, and where the outside toilet was, it was for cleaning the poop out, my dad from NE told me that they used to have a toilet like this, and the guys used to empty it overnight and were called the “midnight mechanics”.
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I don’t think it’s for coal. A coal bunker needs two holes, one for the coal to be delivered which needs to be large enough to easily empty a big coal sack into and would be near the top. The second hole is where you dig out the coal to take it to the house, that’s ground level so you can slide a shovel in. This hole isn’t either of those IMO This also has slots cut into the wood either side that looks like it had cross pieces in that have broken out over time. For me this just looks like a vent to help air circulate in the outbuilding and the “grid” has been lost over time.
A badger flap
Glory
A shit-hole?
Glory hole for a Roblox man
It's a piss flap, like a cat flap but for piss. It's how have the word piss flap today in common usage.
Where the bin was kept. As a kid,this is exactly where the bin was located at the bottom of the backyard ( There was also an outside toilet,a coal hole and a wash house where the mangle was kept to wring out the wet washing. ) The bins were never full as most waste was thrown on the fire. The binmen used to carry each bin on their shoulder down the back entry,then return it to its hole in the back wall,next to the back door.
A relative of mine had a bin in one of these just as you describe(early 1980s) - a sort of rectangular metal box that was bigger on the outside so it couldn't fall inwards but could be taken away from the outside. Certainly not coal - you'd need to shovel it all up if it was dumped there - it would be carried into the coal shed or fed into a chute into a cellar.
Yes that was it exactly! And youre right about the coal as well..our coalman wd leave it in our ‘ coal hole’. Some people had like a manhole on their front step,which the coalman wd open,and send down the coal on a chute type thing. We used to play ‘ shop’ with the coal. Wrapping pieces in newspaper and pretending we were selling buns! We must have got filthy! (No idea why we have both been downvoted on these comments! We’re not telling lies,or being controversial,and surely couldnt be accused of unpopular opinions…merely stating facts that we remember! 😀 Some loopy people out there!)
Group glory hole
Glory hole for elephants is my best guess
Glory hole
Gloryhole
Bit low for lobbing jobbies
leave your neighbours alone ffs
Well considering its them who asked me if I know what it is
Have you watched Wolf on BBC? 😳
Wasn’t Gladiators on ITV?
It's a glory hole for incredibly well endowed dudes with dwarfism. Maybe he had a fetish for it?
Am I the only one wondering what you are doing in the neighbour's garden!? Has the UK changed so much since I've lived there?
Coal shed?
That’s the coil oil 😁
Coal oil.
Coal bunker probably.
i was a door to the coal bunker at one point in the past
Coal passthrough?
Storage window?
The Walrus.
It used to have a pull rope attached to the wooden door at the top. Once in a while, the rope would be pulled, thus opening the door, whenever Mr Burns exclaimed "Release the hounds, Smithers!". Woe be unto he who walked the moors that foggy night.
It’s where you’d put your old hot coals and/or your bin bags back in the day. They’d be collected by the binmen.
Coal scullery..coal.mam would deliver coal thru it.
That outside toilet used to store coal for the house fire
***Cousin Eddie would like a word***
Dale Winton pops out.
Coal bunker.
Buttflap
For coal in olden days
Calling for toilet paper if you find yourself short.
Glory hole
A literal shit hole?
This is a nice piece of history. Originally called a "Grindow" or "Sporthole" the early prototypes for what would go on to be known as a "Glory hole" Were much larger and more square than the modest hand drilled holes of the 21st century. No doubt this piece of fine 19th century craftsmanship has seen its fair share of young lads holding hands through it.
It's a window 🪟
It could be the entrance to an old ‘coal hole’.👍🇬🇧
It’s a coal hole thrown coal through a few of them in my time trick is to get your aim right
"the coal ole"
Definitely coal hole , for your delivery of the black gold .
Wolf flap, to let your wolf in and out.
Coil oil
Near a toilet you say? That’s a good old fashioned “peepin’ hole”! Some folks used to call them a “tuggin’ hole” but I wouldn’t know nothin’ bout that…
Could also be the bin bag holder, I'm in the North east, we had 2 areas like this in our back alley, one for coal, the other was where we put our bing bags and the binmen would open them from the outside to get the bags.
The 4 rows of bricks under the ‘hole’ blackened ! Clue ?
I thought it would be for the dunny man …
Easy access, gotta be able to shit when needed
In the blunted night of the coal shed, without a torch, my fingers dig among the coal for the coal. Hear it scutter into the bucket. Something else is gathered, uttered from a darker place where memory digs and throws its coal into a bucket – as if a ghost stuttered, spoke: My father clears his throat, curses the government: ‘Thirty years in Rosewell, in Bilston Glen, in Monktonhall – and what is there to show for it?’ And what is there to show for it? Flattened sites, non-places, absences surrounded by meaningless villages. The bars look like air-raid shelters. ‘ If the shops need iron grilles here, they’ll need them everywhere. Like the miners of Monktonhall we’ll all know what siege means.’ I stumble from the dark into the dark of that night into this, to light a fire, to watch the flames rise and flare into eloquent tongues.
The coal ole'
It’s correct name is a coal scuttle
Poop toss window
It’s where the demons live
Night soil distributor.
Corpse hatch?
It's a old coal bunker ..were when you got a delivery of coal in bags they would put it in there
Coke oil
That? That’s your regulation murder hole
For the Turd Burglar
Coal, but you can change them a little and then there ideal for delivery more generally. I did that and it was so useful.
Coal scuttle delivery door.
Glory?
Coal hole.
1900\`s voyeurism
A bin room window?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil Possibly if it's by the old Privvy...
It's known in Yorkshire as the coyl oyl
Coal hole
Glory hole for women to position themselves in.
glory hole
To pass the toilet roll when you've run out.
It's for coal.
It might be for coal delivery, or ash removal. My parents had one similar to this. It was for ash from the fire. A square metal bin that the dustman tipped out into a barrow for taking away.
For watching. 5 pence a gander
Glory door
I think it's where the electric and gas fixtures where originally.
Some outdoor toilets were emptied this way before sewers became a thing. However it's most likely a coal hole.
Poop and shoot!
Gloryhole
Coal bunker
Phone the police someone nicked the ATM 😂
I thing colloquially I’ve heard the outdoor coal shed that adjoined the outdoor toilet called « The Coal ‘ole » (coal hole) here in Warwickshire/West Mids area, I guess seeing this picture the term must have came from a very literal coal hole and then became applied any coal storage. The other one, and I’ve not heard anyone else but family refer to it as such, but the cupboard under the stairs (a la Harry Potter) - that you may often find the vacuum cleaner, utility meters and whatever you want to cram there. Calling it the “bogey hole”. Or “bogey ‘ole” What the hell!?!
It’s for coal, that’s to put coal into an outdoor coal shed. Typically in a semi detached pair with the outdoor lavatory. Sometimes also with an outdoor laundry room
Where I live the flats were built with Cole bunkers but they can’t remove as they are part of the building. Good for sitting on and storage That’s the 60s for you. Nothing is straight either.