Re: got plumbing, just not hot water


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 20, 2003 at 17:09:21 from 212.134.234.187 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: got plumbing, just not hot water posted by Ed Kiser on April 16, 2003 at 20:32:22:

Ed - even in the 1930s England was a little bit civilised!!! The U S of A didn't have a monopoly of plumbing, then or now. A solicitor in a Norfolk village would not have used a spring - there would have been running mains water and some means of heating it. However the latter would almost certainly have been a back boiler on the kitchen cooking range or the sitting room fire and might well have not been kept alight all night. If it had been allowed to go out overnight then your therory of heating a kettle on the stove certainly explains Mrs McGinty bringing up the hot water for a morning wash.

However in the English climate the weather would never be so warm that the kitcheen range would be overpoweringly hot. We are on the latitude of Alaska after all, not the sub tropics.


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