Re: Beckfoot Plan; chimneys


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on May 14, 2014 at 11:13:45 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot posted by Dave Thewlis on May 13, 2014 at 12:22:42:

Roger's Beckfoot Plan

Looking at PM seems to provide a few clues. JC 1948, p.25 'A great improvement to the house' fixes absolutely the positition of Nancy and Peggy's room, as shown in the plan. p 115 'Lookout post on the ridge' shows some of the Beckfoot chimneys. One is at the very end of the 'Servants' block', the other at the end of the main living block. But you can't see what's at the entrance end of the main block. CF's study would logically require a chimney at that end, as would Mrs Blackett's room above it, but the living room and dining room, to be inhabitable in the hard lakeland winters, would probably require a central chimney stack, also linked to fire places in the spare room and Nancy and Peggy's rooms. That, in AR's illustration, clearly does not exist.

I do realise that having fire places in the bed rooms would, in those days, probably be regarded as soft and sissy. A hot brick in a blanket would be more likely- or in more modern terms, a hot water bottle. Certainly that was the approach in London when I was tiny, in 1945. We did have gas fires, but it was post war austerity and they weren't lit very often. The whole house was heated by an anthracite stove in a front room. In the ghastly winter of '48, I was allowed to draw curled up on the floor in front of a two-bar electric fire. But in the North? Pre-war? For a prosperous family?

I'm sure that there are plenty more pointers and illustrations that I have missed...


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