[cloddopper]

Done with you in mind Hester , we had a black leaded 200 yr or so yr old open range with hanging rails to cook on from when I was born in 1950 till I was 15 , how mum kept us fed would astound many folks on here ...
 We started my second married life 26 years ago in a 1950's council house , the kitchen had an old 1950's grey gas cooker and a Burco boiler .. both with soft rubber orange connecting hoses , a Belfast sink with a cold tap only  & a built in under the stair pantry & red quarry tiles on the floor .

  You deserve a kitchen if yours is 20 yrs. old as it must really be falling to bits ... they don't make e'm like they used to .

[HesterF]

  They certainly don't - no way could I have coped in your mum's kitchen! Mind you, our predecessor was a bachelor in his eighties so I don't think cooking for a family, let alone 'preserving the harvest', was top of his priority list. I'm sure he'd have coped for another twenty years in it if fate had not intervened....

[montana]

Done, good luck.

[HesterF]

Thanks!