[Margaret Pilkington]

I remember all of those things......and the brass fender with the two endpieces where the wood and paper were stored for lighting the range.
Zebo or zebrite was used to clean those huge black ranges and you used a curved brush and rubbed till your arms ached....but the results were lovely.
My Gran thought she was posh because she had a new range fitted and it was cream enamel!
We used the copper to heat the bathwater too, but we also had a section on the range that heated water....though you had to fill it with a lading tin.....it did have a tap on the bottom so that you could draw the hot water off.
We all had a bath every friday night....cleanest went in first...we all bathed in the same water. Wasn't bad for me because being a girl I got the first bath. I wouldn't have like to be the last one in though. The rest of the week we were encouraged to have an 'all over' wash!