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North of London | Memories for me too but I remember it being THE stove when I was a child.
They used to lug it out to the summer kitchen when weather warmed up because they used it to cook with and it was too hot in main house then back into main house for the winter.
Around the time I began school they got an electric stove so cooking was no longer done on the stove.
In the winter water pipes were attached so we had hot water on tap as the water circulated by convection to a tank in the washroom above.
BTW no pressure system then.
Windmill only but we had a tank in the attic which the windmill pumped into so always had water on tap, cold at least hot too in the winter when the wood stove was kept burning.
Takes some talent to keep the temperature correct for baking in them. | |
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Cold enough to fire up the wood burner
