Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 14, 2003 at 19:42:30 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: BECKFOOT layout - arrangements for eating posted by John Nichols on April 14, 2003 at 17:53:35:
Certainly it can and usually does.
As a metter of interest Agas and the very similar Rayburns are still made from cast iron at the very site in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire where for the first time in the world coal (actually coke) was used by Abraham Darby to smelt iron from its ore, thereby removing the need to use charcoal, and so making the Industrial Revolution possible. There wouldn't have been enough trees to do it with charcoal.
The demand which led to this invention was actually for big cast iron cooking pots, especially for export to Africa and the colonies. So there is remarkable continuity in that 250 years later the site is still used to produce cooking implements.