On Friday, 19 October 2018 19:12:55 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
On 18/10/2018 18:39, Bill Wright wrote:


It means she will know that anyone knocking on the door claiming to be a
meter reader will be a crook.

My late Aunt Lucy (who had already been done over twice this way) let
the third bloke in to read her meter and then locked him in the coal
store [1] before calling the police to report catching a crook.

The nice legal meter reader waited for the police to arrive and let him out.

[1] Bill will not be surprised, but others might, be that the coal store
was inside the house.

--
Adam

I thought the bath was the traditional coal store up North?
We had a cellar with an iron plate in the pavement.