Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 13, 2006 at 17:08:12 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Hot Water System posted by Owen Roberts on September 13, 2006 at 16:07:25:
This was the traditional British heating system for many years.
It's worth remembering that (1) effectively all domestic hot water systems of the time in Britain worked this way and that (2) Beckfoot wouldn't have had any form of central heating, so a thermosyphon hot water system would have worked perfectly well, according to a spartan definition of 'well'. I have also encountered thermosyphon systems of central heating. Definitely iffy and slow reacting.
In fact Beckfoot seems to have had no water supply on the first floor anyway (as in PM) and used jugs in the rooms. So, very traditional indeed.