[guide.chat] In Reply To: In Reply To: fires and ovens
- From: "M BOWKER" <bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Guide Chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:21:39 +0100
Vanessa when you think about it the fire was the main part of life then, It
gave you warmth, hot water, cooking your food, getting rid of rubbish and used
in your garden, And in the winter when it was icey we put the ashes down so we
could walk on the ice.
So no fire no food, heat or water.
love Malcolm. xxx
and drawing the fire with newspaper and it would catch fire and fly up the
chimney, dampen the small dust so it would stay low until morning and put
potato peelings on the back, my nan made me clean her fire grate with zeebra
too, all the ashes had to be sifted and went in her cats litter tray, fat
spoilt cat he was, she fed him on rabbit from the butchers, cut it into eight
parts with the axe and boil it in a big saucepan, when he was eating it, you
could hear the bones cracking, yuck.
vanessa.
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From: James Liddell - Email Address: james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 12/09/2012 23:14
Sent To: M BOWKER, Guide Chat - Email Address: bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
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Subject: [guide.chat] In Reply To: In Reply To: fires and ovens
Malcolm;
Oh, yes - that was always one of my jobs, along with chopping logs to make
kindling.
We also used to dig peats from the local moorland and burn them in the winter.
The smell was great...maybe that's why I still like a good Islay Single
Malt.....
There were also the compressed coal dust briquettes you used to put on the
fire. They were always slow burners.
The fire was great for getting rid of kitchen waste as well!
-----Original Message-----
From: M BOWKER - Email Address: bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 12/09/2012 22:58
Sent To: Guide Chat - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [guide.chat] In Reply To: fires and ovens
Yep the same for us Jim, Warm in the living room but freezing every where else
in the house. frost on the inside of the windows. If we couldn't afford coal we
had to burn whatever we could get hold off. Jim do you remember tieing news
paper into knots to make it burn slower while the coal got alight.
Malcolm. xxx
I used to love the coal fire.
The warmth you got from that was so unlike gas or electric.
Mind you, kindling the thing in the morning was murder when the wind was
blowing the wrong way!
I loved the constant hot water - sometimes boiling hot, so hot that steam came
from the tap rather than water.
Because dad was a miner, and the pits were nationalised in the post war era, we
had concessionary coal, which was granted to the widows of miners as well. The
result was a constantly hot fire in the living room - but no central heating
anywhere else, so the rest of the house was freezing in winter - from October
to April.
-----Original Message-----
From: M BOWKER - Email Address: bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 12/09/2012 22:19
Sent To: Guide Chat - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [guide.chat] fires and ovens
Here's the next one Carol, We had what they called a back to back oven. When I
was small we didn't have a gas oven, So we had the fire place in the living
room and the oven in the kitchen was behind the fire place. So when you made a
fire the heat from the fire heated the oven. So you couldn't cook till it got
warm. So no fire no oven, which meant cold food for dinner. Hard days but good
fun because we didn't no any better. Then gas came along and a gas oven was
put in . By the way I forgot to say. My job with the fire oven was to lift up
the plate on top of the oven and clean all the soot out of it. The soot then
went on the rhubarb plants. Nothing was wasted in those days.
love Malcolm. xxx
hi sweet boy malcolm
oh wow wasn't times so hard in themdays oh my god never heard of washing like
you described tehre and never heard of mangle oh my god proper grafting in them
days
hey can you imagine all the youngsters fo today it well kill them if they had
to live like that nowdays
they don't kknow they are born
my mum had old fashioned ugly cooker
not tops on it just ugly gas buttons knobs to turn
oh so heavy too
oh wow she had wooden draining board on pot white sink peice of cloth hanging
down on side
wow so lucky today very lucky indeed
right going to watch emmerdale soon
love carol xxxx
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