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Dream kitchen
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angie
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How did they cope in them days???? :angel:
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Kandor
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Talking of dreams and kitchens..
I had a strange dream last night..I dreamt Roz actually spent some time in one..
I had a strange dream last night..I dreamt Roz actually spent some time in one..
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angie
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Hard days,but good days O0
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Kandor
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Y'know John..I used to fit little Gas boilers like that as a kid..(My Dad kept tins of food in his) and are my eyes playing up or what?
I can't see any sign of a chain running from her ankle to the kitchen sink...tsk...standards.
I can't see any sign of a chain running from her ankle to the kitchen sink...tsk...standards.
It's a long time now but was that not a gas boiler in the corner for washing clothes. Somewhere out of the shot there was probably a two roll mangle with a large hand crank wheel for squeesing the water out prior to hanging the clothes out to dry; when it was not raining.
regards.
regards.
jennyann
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Flippin eck....that's the New World gas stove like we had. Ours didn't have a warming plate rack though. It was a devil to clean and I was afraid of lighting the oven and used to throw a switch of lighted newspaper into the back of the oven rather than keep my hand in there. Almost blew my eyelashes off a few times doing that when my mother was out and I had to put something in the oven. We had a boiler but not inside the house. Some people called them coppers. It was gas also.
We had a small feranda with a glass roof that my father had built onto the side of our house. We were an end house and my mother had a metal wringer,a wash tub and a dolly out there along with the boiler. In the winter the washing used to freeze like wooden boards and she would stack the largest things like sheets on their sides in the feranda until they fell to the floor...quite amazing really.
We had a small feranda with a glass roof that my father had built onto the side of our house. We were an end house and my mother had a metal wringer,a wash tub and a dolly out there along with the boiler. In the winter the washing used to freeze like wooden boards and she would stack the largest things like sheets on their sides in the feranda until they fell to the floor...quite amazing really.
Di.Poppitt
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
My mom's cooker had no regulo, but the food was never overcooked or burned.. She had a new one in the 50's, complete with regulo and treated it like a Rolls. She left it in the house when she moved out in 1982. 
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mike-g
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It's nice to see a propper size tea pot, they dont make that size now.
I remember just after we were married my Canadian wife and I were over for a visit and we stopped at a restaurant on the M1 for a bite to eat. My wife marvelled at the size of the teapot that the serving lady had at the counter. It was huge and she had to be strong to lift it. On the counter in front of her was a large metal tray with rows of tea cups on it. She looked bemused as my wife giggled when she ran down the rows of cups with the spout filling every cup with one tilt. To that point my wife had only been used to a single tea bag in a stainless teapot. Oh and  merely warm water. It,s a rare North American restaurant that understands tea even now.
