Talk:Coal-tax post

Geograph
This link is meant to show all the posts in the geograph project but it will probably stop working soon. Failing that, you will have to go their search form and select category "Coal Tax Post". -- RHaworth 20:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Images of England
I cannot create a link to the search results in Images of England (the listed buildings website) but you can use the search to look for building type: coal tax post. -- RHaworth 11:57, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Last ditch
The erection of these posts was very much a last ditch attempt to retain the tax in the face of growing opposition. The tax had been running for at least two hundred years but within twenty years of the posts going up it was abolished. The Industrial Revolution was in full swing, London was expanding rapidly. The outer suburbs were becoming towns and their residents beginning to resent paying a tax which had very little direct benefit for them. One extreme case is Caterham which lay (and still lies) outside the Metropolitan Police District (MPD) but if coals were to be brought there by rail they had to pass through the MPD and presumably were subject to the tax.

The City fought against the abolition moves with some underhand tactics - see this report of forgeries. -- RHaworth 22:56, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * This additional bit of history is definitely worth including.--Old Moonraker 06:45, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Done--Old Moonraker 14:44, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

staffed?
Old Moonraker, I hate to query your stuff after you have so kindly copied the above but have you any evidence that inspectors ever sat in Wormley Wood (and 200 hundred other places) just in case a cart load of coal came past? -- RHaworth 11:57, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point. This came from the City history site, but I began to have doubts when I saw the picture of the Epsom Downs marker posts. I will research some more and revise the paragraph. --Old Moonraker 12:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Done.--Old Moonraker 13:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

But what about the wine duties?
Any ideas?

--143.159.197.166 (talk) 01:34, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

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