Many turned to other trades, including enamelling, electroplating and the manufacture of copper and brass coal scuttles, fire screens and kettles.
It is the same with coal scuttles.
They freed coal scuttles, but taxed pokers, tongs and shovels.
That little consideration aside, it is essential that coal scuttles should be provided in our households.
The officials trip over the same coal scuttles and empty milk bottles in the corridors.
The heaters could then be turned into useful cupboards in the home in which to store, for example, coal scuttles.
As we are considering not only dustbins, but buckets, pails, sanitary bins, and coal scuttles it will be necessary to broaden the debate.
Homes that don't use coal sometimes use a coal scuttle decoratively.
