Posted by Owen Roberts on September 14, 2006 at 00:29:48 from 195.92.67.75 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Hot Water System posted by Prue Eckett on September 13, 2006 at 23:44:23:
Prue, a power shower in England is simply a bucket with more holes in the bottom.
On a slightly more serious note, having a tank and an indirect water system is useful when water supplies are intermittant.
I can remember when I was small that we had a jug of water in the bathroom. This was drawn directly from the mains in the scullery. The reason for this was, in the days before covered water tanks, there might be the odd pigeon or mouse floating in the tank. I say this quite seriously as, about 10 years ago, I had the occasion to visit a firm's archives in the loft. There were the remains of two pigeons floating in the loft tank.
Good old English plumbing with lead water pipes and asbestos water tanks. We should have been dead many years ago!