Residents of Barnoldswick were proving very efficient in clearing snow from the paths but their policy of throwing snow on to the roads caused a number of problems for milkmen and coalmen.
There is one particularly striking image of a city gent walking with the Bank of England on one side and a coalman on the other, lifting a bag of coal from his truck.
If a coalman sells a bag of coal with 10 kg less coal in it than it should have, then he will make an extra profit.
He wore an old leather jerkin, the type that coalmen have, and a whitish shirt and a flat cap.
There are a lot of elderly people living in the country who depend on coal to heat their houses and depend on the coalman to deliver it to them.
However, the son of a Somerset coalman wasn't content with staying put in Devon.
‘I began taking a closer look at the postman, the coalman and the chimneysweep,’ joked Louis.
A coalman from York has become world champion in what must be one of the most unusual sports in existence.
Colin known to his friends as ‘Coke’, a nickname earned during his teenage years when he worked as a coalman, loved music.
Gardai had to escort Derry and Donegal coal trucks into Sligo town to make home deliveries following attacks on the trucks from Sligo coalmen.