>> The kitchen fire was always burning to supply hot water and the cooking range.
My maternal grandmother had a range in her house until she died in 1972. Not a mine property but in what was then very much a mining area. Built in the fifties but on the site of a previous 'unfit' property the outbuildings of which remained.
She had been widowed in 1936, my grandfather died of blood poisoning acquired in the course of his duties in the then still privately run Primrose Hill mine near Swillington (Leeds). Post nationalisation she got concessionary coal delivered by a tipper into the yard and which then had to be shovelled into the 'coal place' adjacent to the wash house.
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