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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Sprotyrover on January 02, 2014, 08:03:44 pm

Title: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: Sprotyrover on January 02, 2014, 08:03:44 pm
In a fit of nostalgia I have tried to find a pic of one of those cream coloured enamelled Fire ranges that every body had in their home,has antbody got a link to one?
Title: Re: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: Filo on January 02, 2014, 08:27:53 pm
My old gran always used to have a pot of tea brewing on the hotplate of one of those things, everything went in that oven for fuel
Title: Re: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: Donnywolf on January 03, 2014, 08:08:54 pm
Its not what you want I know but this is a 20s model

I searched for open fire cooking range on Google images and there are loads but none that matched the one in our old house "that did everything"

  http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38519/shacklock-orion-range-in-action-1920s

Edit .... this is VERY close to what I remember but we did have a "thing" that the kettle could sit on and also store the Poker etc

http://www.salvoweb.com/images/userimgs/43500/Foresight-Kitchen-Range_59614_1.jpg
Title: Re: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: DN8ROVER on January 03, 2014, 08:28:09 pm
Quote from: Donnywolf on January 03, 2014, 08:08:54 pm
Its not what you want I know but this is a 20s model

I searched for open fire cooking range on Google images and there are loads but none that matched the one in our old house "that did everything"

  http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38519/shacklock-orion-range-in-action-1920s

Edit .... this is VERY close to what I remember but we did have a "thing" that the kettle could sit on and also store the Poker etc

http://www.salvoweb.com/images/userimgs/43500/Foresight-Kitchen-Range_59614_1.jpg

I remember my grans been a slightly larger version of the second one!
Title: Re: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: drfc1951 on January 03, 2014, 10:31:25 pm
The second one was what we had in our house in Rosso when i was growing up.
Title: Re: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: Sprotyrover on January 03, 2014, 10:37:04 pm
Thanks very much Donny Wolf the second one was  about 95% similar to my Mums,they had a moveable trivet on each side of the fire which you could swivel on and off mainly to boil your Copper Kettle on.
Title: Re: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: RobTheRover on January 04, 2014, 01:03:19 am
Chuffing hell Wolfie, those electrics dont look up to IEC regs!
Title: Re: Pit house fire place/oven
Post by: Donnywolf on January 04, 2014, 09:32:24 am

Its all done with electrickery !