Hot Water at Beckfoot


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Posted by Jock on March 12, 2006 at 13:59:51 from 86.140.160.45 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: water systems - Re: Beckfoot posted by Peter H on March 11, 2006 at 20:23:51:

While the basic water supply arrangements have been thoroughly debated, the hot water plumbing arrangements at Beckfoot have so far escaped analysis. No electric immersion heaters in the 1930's! Beckfoot would not have been connected to a gas mains. Hot water would have been supplied either via:

    1) a coal fired boiler or
    2) Aga style combined hot water boiler and cooker.
If Beckfoot had a coal fired boiler it is unlikely to have been kept running 24 hours a day in the summer. Hot baths would have had to have been booked in advance.


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