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My mum's house was run on anthracite. Great stuff
The good old days.
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I buy mine from Wales. "Black diamond, large nuts". It arrives via the Pall-Ex network. I seem to remember it's £700 for 2 tonnes.
We were given an old solid fuel AGA in 1963 by neighbours of my Mum and Dad, who were throwing it away. As Dad had heard that you weren’t supposed to move them in one piece as you could crack the cast iron base plate, we borrowed the Assembly Instructions from a local AGA agent, and took it completely to pieces - which included 7 sacks full of a white powder called Kieselguhr.
After an eventful journey from Surrey to Devon, during which our 1959 Morris 1000 van refused pointblank to climb over Dartmoor with an AGA and large Golden Retriever in the back, I reassembled it in an old Farmhouse we had moved into, and it did all our cooking and water heating for all the time we were there.
To keep the cost down, we ran it on coke, which you could collect yourself from Plymouth Gas Works at the time. The trick was to sit in the van on the weighbridge on the way in, then after shovelling as much coke as you could inside it, park it back on the weighbridge and nip smartly out and into the office to pay. That way you got your own weight in coke absolutely free!
After an eventful journey from Surrey to Devon, during which our 1959 Morris 1000 van refused pointblank to climb over Dartmoor with an AGA and large Golden Retriever in the back, I reassembled it in an old Farmhouse we had moved into, and it did all our cooking and water heating for all the time we were there.
To keep the cost down, we ran it on coke, which you could collect yourself from Plymouth Gas Works at the time. The trick was to sit in the van on the weighbridge on the way in, then after shovelling as much coke as you could inside it, park it back on the weighbridge and nip smartly out and into the office to pay. That way you got your own weight in coke absolutely free!
