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The Newby family coalrange in Blaketown. 1998.
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DescriptionThe old coal range for cooking and its still in use.Our family cooked on it all the time till Mum got an electric stove when I was 16.. but they still cooked a lot on it after that.It`s still going strong, heating up the water for the household.Dad put new tiles around it in the 1990`s. PhotographerHeather NewbyDate of Photo1998Map[1] ContributorHeather Newby
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Location (city or town)BlaketownPersonNewbyEventThe Newby family coalrange in Blaketown. 1998.
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CommentsJade Wright Noel Wright like nanas 1 dad
March 8 at 6:05pm · Like · 1
Jenny Gifford I would give my eye teeth to have one of these today - Loved them
March 8 at 6:07pm · Like · 3
Shazz Cameron Hanrahan We had one of these for years Plus open house in lounge House always warm..Boiling in summer But sure cooked lovely meals
March 8 at 6:09pm · Like · 2
Dee Sheehan They make the best roasts ever
March 8 at 6:12pm · Like · 12
Annie Van Looy wonderfull heather
March 8 at 6:13pm · Like · 2
Anbarbara Duckett Still and always teh best source of cooking/hot water ever
March 8 at 6:23pm · Like · 4
Julie Steele My husband mother cook on one regular in dobso
March 8 at 6:28pm · Like · 1
Averil Thorpe my Mum and Dad had one of these when I was a kid
March 8 at 6:32pm · Like · 2
Mike Dale Love it
March 8 at 6:34pm · Like · 1
Barry Dawson Smithson Those ovens best for making Christmas Cakes.
March 8 at 6:35pm · Like · 1
Cheryl Pinn and the best roasts!
March 8 at 6:40pm · Like · 3
Joycelyn Pulley My Mum and Dad always had a pot of soup in the winter simmering on their coal range - but what a mess they made (puffs of soot and smoke).
March 8 at 6:41pm · Like · 3
Heather Newby We kids had to take turns cleaning it on Saturdays..scrunched up paper .. set it alight and then pushed into the bottom thingee and then scrape out the soot with a special iron scraper, like a poker.
March 8 at 10:27pm · Edited · Like · 4
Leroy Peirce Used them a lot on the Chatham's too!
March 8 at 6:44pm · Like · 1
Heather Newby Makes the best bread and scones and roast mutton.
March 8 at 6:44pm · Like · 2
Joycelyn Pulley My Dad also made fantastic Gridle scones on his Gridle, the heat was always an even heat - YUMMMM
March 8 at 6:46pm · Like · 3
Christine McAulay Hideous to clean but the best way to cook. Loved sitting with my feet in the oven at night. Burnt a few pairs of slippers but hey it was worth it.
March 8 at 6:46pm · Like · 3
Craig Percasky That looks awesome
March 8 at 6:53pm · Like · 1
Ron Hibbs My first house in 1977 had one for cooking and water heating,wish I still had it, it sure would save money on power
March 8 at 6:55pm · Like · 2
Lyndon McKendry Leslie McKendry mum wasn't the only person to clean the range like she did
March 8 at 6:57pm · Like · 2
Leslie McKendry Lyndon McKendry, no obviously! But by the descriptions the cooking was of a similar high quality
March 8 at 6:59pm · Like · 2
Betty Sheehan Great stoves most railway houses had them dam messy when having to scrape the soot out .
March 8 at 7:00pm · Like · 2
Sue Tozer got one of those in my bach. love it
March 8 at 7:02pm · Like · 3
Amanda Pike Loved mums scones out of our Aga. And our clothes warmed on it in winter.
March 8 at 7:03pm · Like · 2
Noeline Brittenden Remember them. Cooked on one myself.
March 8 at 7:07pm · Like · 1
Sven Pringle They cook the best roasts that ya could ever eat
March 8 at 7:07pm · Like · 2
Maree Lawlor Warm kitchens in winter mornings - memories of home!!
March 8 at 7:15pm · Like · 3
Phyllis Aberbart Last time I was up in Charleston the motorcamp had a working coal range. Does anyone know if it's still there
March 8 at 7:15pm · Like · 2
Sven Pringle We've got one in our Bach too, but when i was a kid - every night our mother cooked our tea on one of these, i miss those days.
March 8 at 7:18pm · Like · 1
Lorraine Greenfield Used one for 7 1/2 years to heat the water for the whole Dunollie Hotel didn't have electric or gas heating. Also did a lot of cooking on it. Heavy containers of coal each morning.
March 8 at 7:19pm · Like · 2
Des Hurring Loved these old fire places when I was a kid
March 8 at 7:20pm · Like · 1
Lorraine Greenfield Bev & John Growcott of Hokitika. Only has this for heating and cooking.
March 8 at 7:23pm · Like · 1
Scott Mitchell Mum still got a 501 shacklock
March 8 at 7:36pm · Like · 2
Chris Windley My wife made the best scones ever in one of these, and roasts too!
March 8 at 7:43pm · Like · 2
Rusty Lemon WE HAD A COAL RANGE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS GREAT ROASTS
March 8 at 7:47pm · Unlike · 3
Shazz Cameron Hanrahan I had to come home from school and fill 2 coal buckets and get wood. Then light fire Unless Dada on night shift He cooked the most amazing soup and Stewing chops on it They fell apart Yum
March 8 at 7:51pm · Unlike · 4
Allan Denny Same at my mum and dad's
March 8 at 7:59pm · Like · 2
Brian McIntyre Roasts and roasted spuds have never been the same since our old one was replaced by electricity
March 8 at 8:25pm · Like · 4
Ron Koole oh my god same to all of those comments. memories. that pic looks so peaceful to me damit then i grew up...
March 8 at 8:25pm · Unlike · 4
Pam Englefield I had a black coal range in 1966 in HarI Hari.
March 8 at 8:27pm · Unlike · 3
Barbara Condon Yes we had one like that!!!
March 8 at 8:32pm · Unlike · 3
Margaret Mulloy Best roast you can have .
March 8 at 8:36pm · Unlike · 4
Paul South Mean roasting range
March 8 at 8:42pm · Unlike · 3
Judy Tawhiti Sure is best roast margaret
March 8 at 8:45pm · Unlike · 3
Deborah Ann Hall we got one of those to, makes the meat taste so much nicer
March 8 at 9:32pm · Unlike · 3
Aaron Woodhouse Grew up with coal rangers
March 8 at 10:07pm · Unlike · 3
Heather Newby Ron Koole I know what you mean
March 8 at 10:25pm · Unlike · 3
Karen Green looks familiar am I that old
March 8 at 11:00pm · Unlike · 3
Vernon Pattinson same as our one was Heather
March 8 at 11:32pm · Unlike · 2
Wayne Campbell After playing footy for Brunner on a Sunday, having a few beers afterwards then coming home to Dads brew of watercrease, porkbones and potatoes sitting on the range was exquisite
March 9 at 6:55am · Unlike · 5
Sue Tozer Heck. just noticed the kettle on the left is exactly the same as the one on my coal range. And i got that from my Mum. The one that was used while i was growing up so very old. Still boils beautifully.
March 9 at 7:18am · Unlike · 3
Elaine Rainey I grew up with one of these Mum used to have a batch of scones waiting for us when we came home from school The best ever scones!
March 9 at 12:09pm · Unlike · 3
Martin James We still use our shacklock centennial every day
Everyday for Me too -our one was the same as this - Oh Those frosty winters morning running from our ice cold lino bedrooms=to be first for the coal range and get the best spot to dress- Mum would have the oven door open and the left side firebo...See More
March 9 at 2:37pm · Edited · Like · 4
Bev Dickey We've just taken ours out - it was all rusted out in the back, couldn't be used any more. What a shame, I'd finally got a cast iron skillet to make scones and pikelets on.
March 9 at 4:40pm · Unlike · 2
Jill Mehrtens Roderick we had one of those in Sturge street in Cobden when i was a kid kept us all warm all year round
March 9 at 5:05pm · Unlike · 2
Jude Campbell Good days bro
Kerry Keating Good, reliable stoves. I remember our one well.
Unlike · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 11:20am
Therese Roughan
Therese Roughan We had one in our house in Heaphy Street, Greymouth.
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Helen Cantwell
Helen Cantwell They where great
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Marie Voigt
Marie Voigt Marvellous stoves, we had one in railway house at Otira and Greymouth too. Made best ever Rice puddings amongst other things. Didn't miss cleaning the soot out in later years though !
Marion E Mundy We had a black one used to paint it
Linda Skelton Mum would dip a page of crumpled up newspaper into the fat tin then rub it all over the top the make it shiny collecting a bit of soot from under the rings to get a nice black shine.
Heather Newby same here,, Mum had a tin of fat under the kitchen sink and would use fat on newspaper to clean the top of the stove
Like · Reply · 12 hrs
Heather Newby
Linda Skelton buffed up with more scrunched up newspaper all while it was nice and hot!
Unlike · Reply · 1 · 18 hrs
Arthur Bass
Arthur Bass Used to soot ours with pea tins of kerosine when at Otira. A few paper pages in the bottom, a pea tin of kero down the chimney, another across the top and down the gaps then light the paper. Done. A friend I showed it ran out of kero and threw some white spirits then lit it. Spent the rest of the work cleaning up soot particles after the white spirits exploded when he lit the paper.
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Linda Skelton
Linda Skelton can make a mess alright! Wet coal gas causes a simular mess
Christine Farrell Its beautiful and warm. Mum had one as a bbq wed make scones in it
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Anita Brussovs
Anita Brussovs We had one in our house on Kaniere Road.
Vernon Pattinson like our old one
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre And those asbestos mats to sit the pot on to reduce the heat
Linda Skelton Open the door and make toast on a fork, best ever taste.
Heather Newby sometimes the top of the stove would get so hot it would be red hot and transparent
Irene Cook they were great.
Paul Francis Toast always tasted better on the fork!
Anne Miller Mcmillan Had one years ago. Loved it. Food tasted lovely . Great for roasts and baking
Cecily Woolhouse Bring them back, roast dinner was the best cooked in these ovens,
Stuart McMillan They are very good for cooking on that’s for sure
David Brown So good, Still remember Gran's sunday roast cook in one was the look forward to meal.
Judy Smolen Our neighbors both had them in Dunollie
Jock Allen we had a shacklock Best Food Ever came out that oven Bugger of a job sooting it though HA HA
Brent Duggan I remember yours Ed. Our did not have the light coloured enamel doors. Gee they worked well though. Cooking, heating and hot water with the wet back.
Ed Dando Brent Duggan remember cutting up kindling for it - banana boxes from Bernard's shop
Les Holmes Germanicus Can't beat these for the Sunday roast. I miss that so much. The smell of Beef roasting in the kitchen and listening to Gladys Moncrief on the radio. Oh those great old days.
Miree Gibson Wonderful, cooked on them for years. Especially liked using the old black double ovens. So many memories - -
Di Mackie My Nan had coalrange love it
Lynne Peirse Best way to warm your backside
Dave Hamilton Those exact stoves were in the mill village houses where I grew up. I never knew about electric ovens until I started work.
Heather Newby i think they were shacklock 501
Raewyn Stephens ive got one of these in the rental im in and i wish i was home more to use it . Love it
Karen Green So efficient warmth baking, hot water, large cooktop good memories
Lynne Brown Yes Jude we were the neighbours. My Mum cooked and baked on the coal range all her life, made the best scones cakes etc ever. Also in the winter just sitting by the range was wonderful.
Joy Hill-Cooper Food tastes nicer cooked on them
Kevin Bell Cooked the best roasts and scones.Had one in every house we lived in apart from our present one and we miss it.
Jean Keenan had one when got married beaut cooker.didnt much like cleaning it.
Jillian Pinn Love it I had one the same, when I got married in 1971, always had a rake on top to dry clothes etc.
Chevy Aitken I've got one in my house in Picton. It needs a new top
Pam Mathieson Great for baking ours was best when there was an easterly wind Jeremy Spalding Still have one and use it every day
Sandra Ilton Bobs mother made beautiful pavlova in coal range.Best ever.
Suzanne King There would always be a kettle on,and a broth as well. Best heating ever.
Peter Rosanowski Served so many purposes.
Trish Rennie Had a Shacklock 501....the lemon n grey model. Cooked on that for 40 plus years and only stopped when we moved to Oamaru over three years ago. Bucket hot soapy water got it clean....nothing like cleaning an electric range...ugghh. The best stews,soups, roasts n scones came out of the coal range and the kettle was always hot...great in the Coast power outages! Miss it!
Catherine Carrington Cooks the best whitebait and a Sunday Roast a few years back now.Marg Pearson I had one too when first married, made the best scones ever in that oven.
Les Howard we had one in Reefton.great in the winter to warm the footy boots up before we went to play
Sue Wilson Les Howard and West Eyreton
John Steel Had one in the house in wainui
Bronwen Skates we learnt to cook and bake on one just like this in Reefton as kids . always heaps of hot water and a warm kitchen
John Bennett best roasts ever
Yvonne John Mckenzie My mother used to make cakes in the oven oh to be able to taste it now it was so yummy
Noel Fagerlund Makes fantastic date scones we had coal stove in Balclutha
Charles Carson Makes great scones
Christine Stewart We had one the same, loved it. So warm.
Pam Murphy And they kept the newborn lambs warm but u had to be careful with the heat
Mawson N Kay Shaw I learnt to cook on the coal range when we were first married living in Reefton , I had few hiccups but mastered it in the end.
Peter Gray always a tea pot "stewing" away down the end the tea was like tar, girdle scones yum, coal heap at the back door, old copper cylinder gurgling away & blowing out the overflow pipe on the roof........ happy days
Michelle Fagan I loved nana coal range the food always taste so good better than the stoves
Amba Whall Linda McLachlan this is like the one we had dad cooks a mean feed and keeps ya ware roo.. get back to basics love it
Jude Wastney We had one in both houses in Granity and my great aunt and uncle, Artie and Alice Cleghorn had one in their house in Blaketown.
Heather Newby I remember the Cleghorns.. the girls were good at dancing
Frank McGinniss Logburner doesn't come close.....
Les van Dijk Awsome there is nothing better for cooking a Sunday roast or baking perfect scones wish I had one now
Aleck Byers Best things i ever cooked in
Les Mehrtens The old Shacklock 501 was really a great and versatile range with its wet back to heat water and being able to shut the damper back to have the heat going through the house for the ceiling clothes line to air or dry the clothes. Another great NZ product made in DUNEDIN
Margaret Stewart Food tasted nicer when cooked on a coal range. Loved baking in it too. Absolutely hated sooting it though!
Les Mehrtens Margaret Stewart better than using blackener like the older stoves. Gran used to blacken the stove before church once the fire had closed down.
Heather Newby made a walls and ceiling all dirty too
Margaret Stewart Les Mehrtens absolutely Led
Vicki Piner bottom oven great for a really juicy slow cooked roast
Garry Brittenden Shacklock 501-the best of the old style coal ranges
Trevor Keith Scott I understand where you are coming from and I agree, but unfortunate that was yesteryear. ANY ONE who has that same stove I take my hat off to you and please do NOT get rid of it. That same old stove has warmed not only my body but my food as well along with my sense of well being and family togetherness' "IF" anyone wants to sell that stove to me please contact me.
Dahl Stuart Ours heated the water as well - great when it used to freeze in the pipes in the winter.
Heather Newby same.. Dad never did get electric water heating.
Ken Auld I Think all Government Houses had one, the old people put feet in oven to keep warm. THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Bob Jamieson
Mum and Dad had one in Runanga for decades.
Ed Dando
Same as ours in Dobson in the 50s and 60s
Tania Newman
I cooked on a Rayburn Royale for 20 years. No electric stove for 10 of those. Tried not to use it! Miss my coalrange
Hamish Ray
The best meals come out of a coal range
Tania Newman
That's why I didn't use the electric, didn't taste the same.
Sandra Arnott
Yip we had the shack lock awesome Sunday roasts!
Anthea Keenan
Ours too.... we all sat around it to keep warm.
Carol Berrigan
And the best scones!
Raylene Black
still cook on a coalrange , its the only form of cooking and heat i have , except mines a homewood ...
Sandra Douglas
Hav one at the bach..brilliant roasts.
Ave Muir
Sandra Douglas Best food ever Sandra, nothing tastes better than food cooked on those stoves. Can still smell it.
Nancy Irene Wakelin
Sandra Douglas mine is good but too slow to do a roast. What am I doing wrong? Would take days
Beryl Heperi
So True.Beautiful Roasts.
Michael Bickerton
I found my brother a reconditioned 501 shatlock
Chris Aitken
Best scones and roasts inthese ovens.
AnnetteandNick Harrison
Cooked the best meals!! Grew up with one in the 50.s and 60,s.
Patsy Grant
Love my coal range, goes every day
Raewyn Louttit
Loved our ranch used to keep me warm and made the best porridge
Marion E Mundy
We had one ours went all the time great roasts
Sue McCallum
Yup remember having meals fr the good old cold range.as a kid And the baking. U can get the new types now but here in sunny Marlb would blow u out of the house with the heat
Tracy Kilkelly
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe we had one exactly like this
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe
Tracy Kilkelly and i hated it
rish Rennie
I just loved my old Shacklock 501 which I cooked on from 1975 for 40 years...received many a complement about my meals and baking from this lovely old stove. There was a power outage in our area and it was out for a long time and I arrived out at 11 o'… See More
Shay Shani
Trish Rennie I remember my 20th birthday tea in your lovely coal oven - roast meat and a cake from the quintessential Women's Weekly birthday cake book
Gareth And-Gill Davies
Had one when I lived in Arthur's pass cooked the best roasts
ichelle Fagan
My nana had a coal range food always tasted so good
Wayne Nicholson
Brings back good memories of scones and perfect roasts.
Susan Barlow
My parents had one. I had cooked my brother a meal of mushrooms, sausages, tomatoes & was about to fry the eggs when the '62 EQ hit. 2 inches of soot covered it all. I gave up cooking pretty much after that ... just as well my parents got an electric s… See More
\Moana Pearl Weaver
I wish I had one Miss baking the buns and making roasts. They always tasted so much better
Wendy Bruce
Ours on the farm was a black leader JE Shacklock & Sons from Liverpool then 1 of these enamel ones (same colour) when mum moved up into Ahaura. She never cooked or baked as well on the more modern 1
Jess Skepper
We had one at Cass in the MoW camp, made great roasts!
Bob Laing
My mother taught me to bake cakes and biscuits in one of those some 60 years ago.
Sandra Douglas
Bob Laing i used to hav put
2-pieces dry
& 1 - wet when mum was baking .
Lois McMillan
Fabulous ovens
Donna Marie Morgan
Just like my Nana’s in Blackball
Marilyn Podmore
I remember Nana Haines one in the old kamara pub. She cooked a lovely Sunday roast
Shona Ratana
Wonderful cooker Happy memories from Dobson Ohau St childhood.
Linda Reedy
Everything cooked perfect especially the roasts and scone
Anne Stapleton
Yes the old railway houses always had them.
Sheryl Cooke
Anne Stapleton we were railway kids, but mum certainly mastered these ovens, we had the best home baking ever
Anne Stapleton
Yes we did too.
Danelle McIntyre
Loved ours always a good roast, scones, anything.. but our black cat loved getting in the oven early in the morning when it was first lit, Mum would have to check he wasn't in the oven when she shut the door !! Our school socks would've been in there… See More
Murry McKendry
Best for Roasts, Sponges & fruitcakes
Sandra Douglas
Murry McKendry yep my mum baked at least 5-6 diff things mon wed fri & she watched the clock soon as it went in .. for me not being able to see it I never knew how she got it right !because when you open the door you lose all the heat .but I never seen… See More
Monica Harvey
I had one just loved it best tasting roasts it took me a while to cook on electric
Julie Pickering
Ruby had one in canvastown too
Rose Sixtus
Monica Harvey hello Monica remember me?
Norm Lovelock
Wow that brings back memories.
Joy Meyer
We cooked on it and Dad would hang his work sox over the oven door to air them.
Nathan Deroo
Dean de Roo
Andy Grigg
Got a spare one....
Paul Agnes Smith
Never forget the smell of damp socks, drying on the register.....
Rose Sixtus
You cant beat a coalrange
Susan McEnroe
Love the coal range. Used one for many, many years.
Stuart McMillan
Best way to cook
Elaine Bolitho
Can just about smell it -- aah!
Helen Back
Brilliant, love cooking with them, perfect roasts every time...
Anne Bruce
Oven was also used to 'defrost' orphan lambs during freezing Spring rain. Wrapped them in a towel and put in oven, door open, for a very short time. Then placed, stlll wrapped, on rhe hearth. They never roasted until older and fatter.
Wendy Bruce
Anne that pre-roasting made them extra tasty
David Atkinson
Love the smell of coal on the coast burning... it must get the hackles up on the tree hugger planet savers..
Robin Gibbens
David Atkinson Me to , love the smell F- - k the greens all dreams
Jillian Nuth
David Atkinson absolutely my favorite
Jason Garland
Still love our coal range
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Jason Garland love Waimangaroa
Maggie Boot
Much good food from that wonderful stove
Warner Nut Curry
Thats a real bobby dazzler
James Newby
Mum would get My father to bring home the venison necks as well as the meat,she would get the Blaketown butcher to cut them thinly on the band saw and then leave it slowly cooking on the coal range and only adding a large bottle of DB,( no water)and v… See More
Martin James
I still cook on one. Christmas cakes for a fundraising group
Martin James
Watters Range... made in Christchurch well before 1900.
Murry McKendry
Cuppa always at hand with that many kettles
Martin James
Murry McKendry absolutely but look out when i find who doesnt refill them or lets them boil dry
Joanne Matthews
Gaylene Donaldson Dot Donaldson thought this photo was nanas kitchen when I first looked
Gaylene Donaldson
Joanne Matthews yeh see what you mean
Dot Donaldson
Joanne Matthews yes it really looks like Mums
Karlene Jane Batchelor
Anthea Harkerss
Len Brereton
Didn't know Harold was a tiler as well as good coal miñer
Heather Newby
Len Brereton haha.. He was quite handy at things like that.
Justine Johansson
Omg we had exactly the same one which I learnt to bake in with my mum
Lindsay Forrest
My nana in Coakley St Blaketown had one of those!!
Valda May Pattinson
Cooked scones in my mother in laws coal range oven in 5 minutes once. I was gobsmacked.
Jillian Nuth
I am so jealous I want one so badly
Ray Chandler
My Mums leg of lamb from one of those was just the best on a Sunday.
Dave Malone
I was the chief stoker at age 8 yrs,wood cut 2" sq and 8" long' of one the same in the mid 60's,had them most of my life,just boiled the kettle on the latest one i put in about 4yrs ago after wearing out the previous one.Now they take logs.The meter re… See More
Fran Townsend
Still have 1 of them today!
Dianne Manera
Best roast meat and baking come out of those ovens. Nice and moist, not dried out. Yum
Heather Newby
Dianne Manera i remember the roast mutton
Dianne Manera
The best
Carol Appelman
Dianne Manera my nana only cooked on one of these.made yummy bread and scones
Maria Sunderland
Dianne Manera i agree still remember my grandmother's Sunday roast it was the best! Have had a roast at petes hut a couple of times too just to use the coal range
Dianne Manera
Carol Appelman then we dried the kindling wood in it, he he
Kath Jim Anderson
Had a Coal range when we were first married did my best baking in it.
Margaret Milne
Made the best roast ever
Vern Pattinson
Same as our old one
David Rodgers
Our family also had one in the 50's (a black one). Wish I had photographed it. Lot of memories there.
Lynette Clarkson
Yip we had a Shacklock 501 in Seddonville loved it.
Jock Allen
thats a flash one Heather enamel doors our one was an orion with cast iron doors and a large flip over latch to close the oven Best roasts ever and with the girdle scones on top YUMMY used to soot it once a week
Tina Marie Bertacco-Morton
My grandparents had one.
Denise Kelly Willis
I learned to cook on one of those and my Nana wouldn't use the electric stove at all
Jenny Leach
used to love my coal range used to cook all the time on it wonderful roasts,stews and soups
Sue Vaukins
Oh the smell of that Sunday roast
Thelma Coutts
My Mother cooked on our coal range all her married life. My Father bought her an electric stove and she would not have it installed at all. All her cooking and baking was wonderful as it was all cooked slowly.
Debbie Hughes
Thelma Coutts I can vouch for that. Always something yum to eat
Sue Tozer
Cook on one regularly . Heats bach. Water. Dries wet hunting gear. Best invention ever. Love mine.
Charil Milne
Best ever stove for doing huge family roast
Allan Quinn
Same coul
Allan Quinn
Same colour as my mum and dad had
Michelle Macilquham
I always have wonderful memories of my Nana cooking on hers
Del Godfrey
Lucky you Sue Tozer, great for pikelet making too! Remember mums one and cooked the best roast!
Thelma Coutts
She used to get that range really hot didn’t she?
Anna Reiha Walters
Your meals and baking were faultless Trish Rennie x
Trish Rennie
Oh...that's so very kind of you to say so Anna...I do love to cook. Took me a while to adapt to the electric and soon it will be induction cook tops so more learning
Rosemary Garaway
I used to cook on these when we lived there. Took a but to master but I did it
Michelle Martin
Alisonandchris Blanchfield and Frank Blanchfield looks like the one at the batch?
Joy Hill-Cooper
I had one in my house in Ross, loved cooking on it
Joy Leach
Cooking on the coal range was great
Craig Brooks
Jason Ross your nana show us how to cook on one of these
Pauline Healey
What a great little coal range. Sounds like it's got a personality of its own☺️
Murry McKendry
Pauline Healey They certainly do especially when you had to clean the register of soot.
Zilla Steele
That certainly brings back memories
Margaret Harrington
My Aunty Barbara (Quate) had a black one, and the fire would be blazing, she would open the oven door and put her hand in and say just right for the scones, or cheese straws, fruit cake. She was a great baker
Anna Panther
I had one when I got married & loved using it to cook with - never baked in it but roasts & casseroles were bloody good
Mike Waghorne
We had a black one in Brunner in the 1950s. It was my job to clear out all the spot from time to time. I can't remember when it was boarded up and replaced by an electric stove.Linzi Woods
Simply The best - cook - heat water - keep warm - No worries when there is a power cut.
Wayne Nicholson
Brings back fond memories. Nana cooking my brekkie.
Tania Wilmott
The days when the house was warm, lovely smells coming from the kitchen, endless hot water for a deep bath and warm toasty towels to dry off with, even in a power cut!
Wayne Gazzard
We had one in our first house took a bit off getting used to but cooked a good roast
Wayne Gazzard i grew up with it and thats all i knew
Brian Case
Great to cook on bake and heat water
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Brian Case those roast Bro .But the dumplings .yum .
Brian Case
Barbara Fitzsimmons looking after girls ask them to light fire to heat water came home no fire going no hot water no tea for them next day told them to light fire came home water going 2o feet in the air asked how long water been doing they said about …
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Brian Case dont get others to do .what ya can do yaself .mum told you that .
Brian Case
Barbara Fitzsimmons yes mums are always right
Wayne Madden
Awesome I remember that
Jil Cowan
They are the best
Darrell Andrews
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Chris Kelly
i like those ones, you can lower the great and put wood in them
Gary Patrick
They were great
Vicki Roper
I love how we all had the fire door open watching the flames
Bob Laing
Ken Joan Campbell
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Had one the same. Loved it.
Chrissy Thompson
Can't go wrong with a good coal range. Miss ours
Barbara Pearce
Wish I still had one
Grant Haworth
Barbara Pearce the best ovens to bake and roast in
Alan-Lynda Hogg
We had one of these when we bought our house in Cobden in 1976 loved it
Trevor Hutt
Still remember that Sunday roast been done in the coal range... Yummiest
Rosemary Matthews
My first stove when i got married 1970. Would still love to have one.
Bill Rex Matthews
Rosemary Matthews that's when you were able to get it going aunty but yeah can't beat the old coat range.
Rosemary Matthews
Bill Rex Matthews Hahaha precious time in our lives Billy.. You were my saviour teaching me how to keep it going.. lucky you fellas got fed to start with.x
Christine Busch
Love the wood range..its the hub of the kitchen...many warm memories...
Marg Power
Just got one the same to take down to our whitebait hut at Jacobs River looking forward to a family roast.
Andy Bone
Scones on the range mmmmm peg topps Sunday roast
Maxine Fortune
Andy Bone she made the best roast potatoes
Donna Klocke
Maxine Fortune she certainly did !
Bronwen Skates
Bought up with a coal range and learnt how to bake in one . Getting the fire built up to get right temperature etc prior to baking. Best roasts always cooked in challenge. Plates all warming up on rack and very important the big kettle always on back hob for cups of tea
Joy Beveridge
Bronwen Skates Same here, roasts on Sunday, devine and the bread, took some beating. Those were the days.
Raewyn Louttit
Make the best porridge ever
John Fowler
Sunday roast to die for. Can’t get them the same with electric.
Nova Hichens
Brings back memories, good food & baking & warmth.
Nova Hichens
Remember mums roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding,!and all the baking she done for weddings etc,and the kettle always on the boil,
Wayne Leckie
Mum and dad had one
BrianJoyce Hassan
Grew up in Waimaunga with one of them
Maxine Fortune
She made the best roast potatoes!
Angela Brookes
Can't beat the good old coal range. Perfect when there's a power cut.
Kathy Ann Rozynski
Grew up with this on holidays in Nelson creek with Gordon and Jess Dalziel my favourite place
Doug Griffin
We had one in my early years
Stephen Mawer
Doug Griffin we have one in our house
Gary Blackhawk
Currently looking for a RH Shacklock 501 the same as this. Need the main cast iron top plate which is under the enamel one or a complete oven in good condition to use instead. Please PM me if you have something available.
Suzi Kiely
Such a hub in the kitchen. Cooking, baking, heating, heating hot water cylinder, dying washing such a versatile, time consuming and dusty but loving kitchen hub!
Pamela Gibson
Great way of cooking I do remember
Phyllis Aberhart
My elder daughter who is now early 50's learnt to cook on one.
Jackie Fluerty
Fruit cake is so much nicer cooked in that oven.
Tony Mulholland
I still have one sitting in my shed.good straight tops
Tracy Rogers
Miriam Rogers nup lol
Helen Joan Forrest
So many people have great memories of the coal range. I have mixed emotions about them. Certainly they kept the home warm and dry, cooked yummy meals, dried clothes, tea pots at the ready etc. I absolutely loathed cleaning up the dragon. Scrapping the ashes etc out and being covered in soot. There was one in the first house we lived in Reefton and it did everything others loved. It was the only reason I wanted to run away. No way I will ever live in a house with one again. Best scones though.
Bruce Dando
Same as our old one at 126.
Kuini Ginty
Julee Mae Gints looks like our old one
Miriam Rogers
Stephen Rogers and Miriam Rogers going to buy
Miriam Rogers
Yep going to buy Tracy Rogers
Tracy Rogers would be good in dining room xx
Glenys Elizabeth Martin
Matter of learning how to use them, the older style iron ones were the absolute best my Mum got a new one after earthquake, and I had both kinds during g my married life, like everything practice makes perfect,not that I was ever perfect,but had hea… See more
Donna Marie Morgan
Just like my Nana’s in Blackball
Jillian Gardyne
Also great for warming the feet on in those very frosty Otira mornings as a child.
Pam Mcmanus
They are the best, I had one many years ago.
Elizabeth Shaw
When we go back to the coast i just the smell of the coal fires
Trish Griffin
The best pork crackling ever cooked in that old range
Ngareta Orchard
Soup pot on stove in the winter when we got home from school lovely sponges
John Sara
We had one the Same at 21 Blake Street, would love to have one now
Rauma McIlwraith
And a leg of roasted mutton baked whole Snapper yummy
Don Pearce
Had one the same too.In Westport.
Gaye Waide
Have a Stanley - beaut meals and baking ...copious hot water
Sue Murdoch
coal range's do the best roasties
Jenny Leach
Had one just the same in ruatapu it was a real winner in the winter loved it heated the water as well
Phil Millar
My aunty Sybil Forbes always had the Kettle on for a cup of tea,she lived opposite Victoria Park Raceway!
Marilyn O'Donnell
Hi girls Judy must have taken after Aunty Margaret as she was good at baking. Loved her yo yos. Xx
Sandra Rooney
Had one like that in Te Kinga it was great in winter.
Nadia Thekiwione Tainui
Marilyn Johansson
Carol Thomson
I remember having to light the fire and bring the wood in to keep it going. Would love one of these now. Do they still make them?
Mary Costello
How Cool
Warren Beckett
My brother still use his in nightcaps an with coal
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My grandmother had one of these, almost exactly the same. I still remember the kettle always bubbling away, and bringing in the firewood from the shed to keep it going
Vern Pattinson
Right hand oven same as our one and color shacklock 501
Sandra Arnott
Vern Pattinson we had the same!
Bronwen Skates
Sandra Arnott same here
Saali Marks
I grew up with a shacklock 501 too
Eileen O'Neil
Sandra Loveday look familiar? X
Dianne Manera
Meat and cakes don’t dry out like they do in these damn fan bakes do. As someone said the roasts were the best.
Maureen Shaw
My mother heated her irons on one to keep our clothes ironed and wrinkle free, also when she baked always left some egg in the shell and cooked it try on range for me to teaspoon out
Anne Honey
Miss having a coal range a warm kitchen in the morning always hot water a pot of soup in winter. Roasts dont taste the same in an electric oven.
Glenda Robbins
best roasts ever
Jason Garland
We have one in our Bach and love it. They can certainly put out the heat. I have 4 of them now lol
Terry Harding
We had one when I was young. Mum kept on using it long after a brother got a job and bought her an electric one. I have no reason why, but it's in my mind that things cooked on the old range tasted different, maybe better. It stayed in place until the dining room and lounge were extensively remodeled just before Mum passed.
David Rodgers
This photo brings back many personal memories. I'm glad that someone recorded this image
Paddy Oconnell
Brings back good memories
Jock Allen
We had an ORION plenty of great roasts came out of that oven also kept the house really warm my job was to soot it
Margaret Malloch
Wonderful for cooking and keeping place nice and warm especially winter time I was about 11 when mum and dad got electric but range still there for use
Elleyna Rennie
This was our coal range
May be an image of indoor
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Lorraine O'Donoghue
Oh how I miss the coal range! I would have it back tomorrow if possible!
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Linda Hughes
Oh how I wish I had one of these!
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Koroheke Hemopo
,,,,,, Oooohhh the memories
Shona Ratana
Looks like the oven we had too??
Steve Oak
Vanessa Oakley
Richard Howe
My Grandmother had one, and it was wonderful in the winter.
Michael Riki
My Nan cook the meanest roast and added pumpkin, Kumara and her spinach was so Devine loved my Nan’s cooking
Karen Da Via
You just can't beat a coal range.
Kevin Freeth
Looks exactly like my Nana s one 57 years ago
Kevin Freeth
And you related to a Shane Newby?
Selwyn Leitch
Indeed. I recall my grandmother in Christchurch warming her feet in the Coal range oven in the winter.
Nicola Bourke
Happy memories
Brian McIntyre
I can feel the heat coming off your stove
Bronwen Skates
When you think of the cost of power and power cuts that some places endure during winter a coal range would be a Godsend. It was our source of cooking . Hot water and as children on cold winter mornings my late mum would open oven door and warm our clothes over it while we dressed in the warmth as back then bedrooms were icy cold
Cheryl Roberts
Child hood memories
Marilyn Jones
Great memories for me sitting around a fire just like this one. So many stories told and the fire just kept on burning. It was in Blaketown as well.
Teresa McLaughlin
Remember this in Ngahere
Manda Watts
March 8 at 6:05pm · Like · 1
Jenny Gifford I would give my eye teeth to have one of these today - Loved them
March 8 at 6:07pm · Like · 3
Shazz Cameron Hanrahan We had one of these for years Plus open house in lounge House always warm..Boiling in summer But sure cooked lovely meals
March 8 at 6:09pm · Like · 2
Dee Sheehan They make the best roasts ever
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Annie Van Looy wonderfull heather
March 8 at 6:13pm · Like · 2
Anbarbara Duckett Still and always teh best source of cooking/hot water ever
March 8 at 6:23pm · Like · 4
Julie Steele My husband mother cook on one regular in dobso
March 8 at 6:28pm · Like · 1
Averil Thorpe my Mum and Dad had one of these when I was a kid
March 8 at 6:32pm · Like · 2
Mike Dale Love it
March 8 at 6:34pm · Like · 1
Barry Dawson Smithson Those ovens best for making Christmas Cakes.
March 8 at 6:35pm · Like · 1
Cheryl Pinn and the best roasts!
March 8 at 6:40pm · Like · 3
Joycelyn Pulley My Mum and Dad always had a pot of soup in the winter simmering on their coal range - but what a mess they made (puffs of soot and smoke).
March 8 at 6:41pm · Like · 3
Heather Newby We kids had to take turns cleaning it on Saturdays..scrunched up paper .. set it alight and then pushed into the bottom thingee and then scrape out the soot with a special iron scraper, like a poker.
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Leroy Peirce Used them a lot on the Chatham's too!
March 8 at 6:44pm · Like · 1
Heather Newby Makes the best bread and scones and roast mutton.
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Joycelyn Pulley My Dad also made fantastic Gridle scones on his Gridle, the heat was always an even heat - YUMMMM
March 8 at 6:46pm · Like · 3
Christine McAulay Hideous to clean but the best way to cook. Loved sitting with my feet in the oven at night. Burnt a few pairs of slippers but hey it was worth it.
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Craig Percasky That looks awesome
March 8 at 6:53pm · Like · 1
Ron Hibbs My first house in 1977 had one for cooking and water heating,wish I still had it, it sure would save money on power
March 8 at 6:55pm · Like · 2
Lyndon McKendry Leslie McKendry mum wasn't the only person to clean the range like she did
March 8 at 6:57pm · Like · 2
Leslie McKendry Lyndon McKendry, no obviously! But by the descriptions the cooking was of a similar high quality
March 8 at 6:59pm · Like · 2
Betty Sheehan Great stoves most railway houses had them dam messy when having to scrape the soot out .
March 8 at 7:00pm · Like · 2
Sue Tozer got one of those in my bach. love it
March 8 at 7:02pm · Like · 3
Amanda Pike Loved mums scones out of our Aga. And our clothes warmed on it in winter.
March 8 at 7:03pm · Like · 2
Noeline Brittenden Remember them. Cooked on one myself.
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Sven Pringle They cook the best roasts that ya could ever eat
March 8 at 7:07pm · Like · 2
Maree Lawlor Warm kitchens in winter mornings - memories of home!!
March 8 at 7:15pm · Like · 3
Phyllis Aberbart Last time I was up in Charleston the motorcamp had a working coal range. Does anyone know if it's still there
March 8 at 7:15pm · Like · 2
Sven Pringle We've got one in our Bach too, but when i was a kid - every night our mother cooked our tea on one of these, i miss those days.
March 8 at 7:18pm · Like · 1
Lorraine Greenfield Used one for 7 1/2 years to heat the water for the whole Dunollie Hotel didn't have electric or gas heating. Also did a lot of cooking on it. Heavy containers of coal each morning.
March 8 at 7:19pm · Like · 2
Des Hurring Loved these old fire places when I was a kid
March 8 at 7:20pm · Like · 1
Lorraine Greenfield Bev & John Growcott of Hokitika. Only has this for heating and cooking.
March 8 at 7:23pm · Like · 1
Scott Mitchell Mum still got a 501 shacklock
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Chris Windley My wife made the best scones ever in one of these, and roasts too!
March 8 at 7:43pm · Like · 2
Rusty Lemon WE HAD A COAL RANGE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS GREAT ROASTS
March 8 at 7:47pm · Unlike · 3
Shazz Cameron Hanrahan I had to come home from school and fill 2 coal buckets and get wood. Then light fire Unless Dada on night shift He cooked the most amazing soup and Stewing chops on it They fell apart Yum
March 8 at 7:51pm · Unlike · 4
Allan Denny Same at my mum and dad's
March 8 at 7:59pm · Like · 2
Brian McIntyre Roasts and roasted spuds have never been the same since our old one was replaced by electricity
March 8 at 8:25pm · Like · 4
Ron Koole oh my god same to all of those comments. memories. that pic looks so peaceful to me damit then i grew up...
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Pam Englefield I had a black coal range in 1966 in HarI Hari.
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Barbara Condon Yes we had one like that!!!
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Margaret Mulloy Best roast you can have .
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Paul South Mean roasting range
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Judy Tawhiti Sure is best roast margaret
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Deborah Ann Hall we got one of those to, makes the meat taste so much nicer
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Aaron Woodhouse Grew up with coal rangers
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Heather Newby Ron Koole I know what you mean
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Karen Green looks familiar am I that old
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Vernon Pattinson same as our one was Heather
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Wayne Campbell After playing footy for Brunner on a Sunday, having a few beers afterwards then coming home to Dads brew of watercrease, porkbones and potatoes sitting on the range was exquisite
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Sue Tozer Heck. just noticed the kettle on the left is exactly the same as the one on my coal range. And i got that from my Mum. The one that was used while i was growing up so very old. Still boils beautifully.
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Elaine Rainey I grew up with one of these Mum used to have a batch of scones waiting for us when we came home from school The best ever scones!
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Martin James We still use our shacklock centennial every day
Everyday for Me too -our one was the same as this - Oh Those frosty winters morning running from our ice cold lino bedrooms=to be first for the coal range and get the best spot to dress- Mum would have the oven door open and the left side firebo...See More
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Bev Dickey We've just taken ours out - it was all rusted out in the back, couldn't be used any more. What a shame, I'd finally got a cast iron skillet to make scones and pikelets on.
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Jill Mehrtens Roderick we had one of those in Sturge street in Cobden when i was a kid kept us all warm all year round
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Jude Campbell Good days bro
Kerry Keating Good, reliable stoves. I remember our one well.
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Therese Roughan
Therese Roughan We had one in our house in Heaphy Street, Greymouth.
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Helen Cantwell
Helen Cantwell They where great
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Marie Voigt
Marie Voigt Marvellous stoves, we had one in railway house at Otira and Greymouth too. Made best ever Rice puddings amongst other things. Didn't miss cleaning the soot out in later years though !
Marion E Mundy We had a black one used to paint it
Linda Skelton Mum would dip a page of crumpled up newspaper into the fat tin then rub it all over the top the make it shiny collecting a bit of soot from under the rings to get a nice black shine.
Heather Newby same here,, Mum had a tin of fat under the kitchen sink and would use fat on newspaper to clean the top of the stove
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Heather Newby
Linda Skelton buffed up with more scrunched up newspaper all while it was nice and hot!
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Arthur Bass
Arthur Bass Used to soot ours with pea tins of kerosine when at Otira. A few paper pages in the bottom, a pea tin of kero down the chimney, another across the top and down the gaps then light the paper. Done. A friend I showed it ran out of kero and threw some white spirits then lit it. Spent the rest of the work cleaning up soot particles after the white spirits exploded when he lit the paper.
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Linda Skelton
Linda Skelton can make a mess alright! Wet coal gas causes a simular mess
Christine Farrell Its beautiful and warm. Mum had one as a bbq wed make scones in it
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Anita Brussovs
Anita Brussovs We had one in our house on Kaniere Road.
Vernon Pattinson like our old one
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Brian McIntyre
Brian McIntyre And those asbestos mats to sit the pot on to reduce the heat
Linda Skelton Open the door and make toast on a fork, best ever taste.
Heather Newby sometimes the top of the stove would get so hot it would be red hot and transparent
Irene Cook they were great.
Paul Francis Toast always tasted better on the fork!
Anne Miller Mcmillan Had one years ago. Loved it. Food tasted lovely . Great for roasts and baking
Cecily Woolhouse Bring them back, roast dinner was the best cooked in these ovens,
Stuart McMillan They are very good for cooking on that’s for sure
David Brown So good, Still remember Gran's sunday roast cook in one was the look forward to meal.
Judy Smolen Our neighbors both had them in Dunollie
Jock Allen we had a shacklock Best Food Ever came out that oven Bugger of a job sooting it though HA HA
Brent Duggan I remember yours Ed. Our did not have the light coloured enamel doors. Gee they worked well though. Cooking, heating and hot water with the wet back.
Ed Dando Brent Duggan remember cutting up kindling for it - banana boxes from Bernard's shop
Les Holmes Germanicus Can't beat these for the Sunday roast. I miss that so much. The smell of Beef roasting in the kitchen and listening to Gladys Moncrief on the radio. Oh those great old days.
Miree Gibson Wonderful, cooked on them for years. Especially liked using the old black double ovens. So many memories - -
Di Mackie My Nan had coalrange love it
Lynne Peirse Best way to warm your backside
Dave Hamilton Those exact stoves were in the mill village houses where I grew up. I never knew about electric ovens until I started work.
Heather Newby i think they were shacklock 501
Raewyn Stephens ive got one of these in the rental im in and i wish i was home more to use it . Love it
Karen Green So efficient warmth baking, hot water, large cooktop good memories
Lynne Brown Yes Jude we were the neighbours. My Mum cooked and baked on the coal range all her life, made the best scones cakes etc ever. Also in the winter just sitting by the range was wonderful.
Joy Hill-Cooper Food tastes nicer cooked on them
Kevin Bell Cooked the best roasts and scones.Had one in every house we lived in apart from our present one and we miss it.
Jean Keenan had one when got married beaut cooker.didnt much like cleaning it.
Jillian Pinn Love it I had one the same, when I got married in 1971, always had a rake on top to dry clothes etc.
Chevy Aitken I've got one in my house in Picton. It needs a new top
Pam Mathieson Great for baking ours was best when there was an easterly wind Jeremy Spalding Still have one and use it every day
Sandra Ilton Bobs mother made beautiful pavlova in coal range.Best ever.
Suzanne King There would always be a kettle on,and a broth as well. Best heating ever.
Peter Rosanowski Served so many purposes.
Trish Rennie Had a Shacklock 501....the lemon n grey model. Cooked on that for 40 plus years and only stopped when we moved to Oamaru over three years ago. Bucket hot soapy water got it clean....nothing like cleaning an electric range...ugghh. The best stews,soups, roasts n scones came out of the coal range and the kettle was always hot...great in the Coast power outages! Miss it!
Catherine Carrington Cooks the best whitebait and a Sunday Roast a few years back now.Marg Pearson I had one too when first married, made the best scones ever in that oven.
Les Howard we had one in Reefton.great in the winter to warm the footy boots up before we went to play
Sue Wilson Les Howard and West Eyreton
John Steel Had one in the house in wainui
Bronwen Skates we learnt to cook and bake on one just like this in Reefton as kids . always heaps of hot water and a warm kitchen
John Bennett best roasts ever
Yvonne John Mckenzie My mother used to make cakes in the oven oh to be able to taste it now it was so yummy
Noel Fagerlund Makes fantastic date scones we had coal stove in Balclutha
Charles Carson Makes great scones
Christine Stewart We had one the same, loved it. So warm.
Pam Murphy And they kept the newborn lambs warm but u had to be careful with the heat
Mawson N Kay Shaw I learnt to cook on the coal range when we were first married living in Reefton , I had few hiccups but mastered it in the end.
Peter Gray always a tea pot "stewing" away down the end the tea was like tar, girdle scones yum, coal heap at the back door, old copper cylinder gurgling away & blowing out the overflow pipe on the roof........ happy days
Michelle Fagan I loved nana coal range the food always taste so good better than the stoves
Amba Whall Linda McLachlan this is like the one we had dad cooks a mean feed and keeps ya ware roo.. get back to basics love it
Jude Wastney We had one in both houses in Granity and my great aunt and uncle, Artie and Alice Cleghorn had one in their house in Blaketown.
Heather Newby I remember the Cleghorns.. the girls were good at dancing
Frank McGinniss Logburner doesn't come close.....
Les van Dijk Awsome there is nothing better for cooking a Sunday roast or baking perfect scones wish I had one now
Aleck Byers Best things i ever cooked in
Les Mehrtens The old Shacklock 501 was really a great and versatile range with its wet back to heat water and being able to shut the damper back to have the heat going through the house for the ceiling clothes line to air or dry the clothes. Another great NZ product made in DUNEDIN
Margaret Stewart Food tasted nicer when cooked on a coal range. Loved baking in it too. Absolutely hated sooting it though!
Les Mehrtens Margaret Stewart better than using blackener like the older stoves. Gran used to blacken the stove before church once the fire had closed down.
Heather Newby made a walls and ceiling all dirty too
Margaret Stewart Les Mehrtens absolutely Led
Vicki Piner bottom oven great for a really juicy slow cooked roast
Garry Brittenden Shacklock 501-the best of the old style coal ranges
Trevor Keith Scott I understand where you are coming from and I agree, but unfortunate that was yesteryear. ANY ONE who has that same stove I take my hat off to you and please do NOT get rid of it. That same old stove has warmed not only my body but my food as well along with my sense of well being and family togetherness' "IF" anyone wants to sell that stove to me please contact me.
Dahl Stuart Ours heated the water as well - great when it used to freeze in the pipes in the winter.
Heather Newby same.. Dad never did get electric water heating.
Ken Auld I Think all Government Houses had one, the old people put feet in oven to keep warm. THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Bob Jamieson
Mum and Dad had one in Runanga for decades.
Ed Dando
Same as ours in Dobson in the 50s and 60s
Tania Newman
I cooked on a Rayburn Royale for 20 years. No electric stove for 10 of those. Tried not to use it! Miss my coalrange
Hamish Ray
The best meals come out of a coal range
Tania Newman
That's why I didn't use the electric, didn't taste the same.
Sandra Arnott
Yip we had the shack lock awesome Sunday roasts!
Anthea Keenan
Ours too.... we all sat around it to keep warm.
Carol Berrigan
And the best scones!
Raylene Black
still cook on a coalrange , its the only form of cooking and heat i have , except mines a homewood ...
Sandra Douglas
Hav one at the bach..brilliant roasts.
Ave Muir
Sandra Douglas Best food ever Sandra, nothing tastes better than food cooked on those stoves. Can still smell it.
Nancy Irene Wakelin
Sandra Douglas mine is good but too slow to do a roast. What am I doing wrong? Would take days
Beryl Heperi
So True.Beautiful Roasts.
Michael Bickerton
I found my brother a reconditioned 501 shatlock
Chris Aitken
Best scones and roasts inthese ovens.
AnnetteandNick Harrison
Cooked the best meals!! Grew up with one in the 50.s and 60,s.
Patsy Grant
Love my coal range, goes every day
Raewyn Louttit
Loved our ranch used to keep me warm and made the best porridge
Marion E Mundy
We had one ours went all the time great roasts
Sue McCallum
Yup remember having meals fr the good old cold range.as a kid And the baking. U can get the new types now but here in sunny Marlb would blow u out of the house with the heat
Tracy Kilkelly
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe we had one exactly like this
Irene Quy Merv Pascoe
Tracy Kilkelly and i hated it
rish Rennie
I just loved my old Shacklock 501 which I cooked on from 1975 for 40 years...received many a complement about my meals and baking from this lovely old stove. There was a power outage in our area and it was out for a long time and I arrived out at 11 o'… See More
Shay Shani
Trish Rennie I remember my 20th birthday tea in your lovely coal oven - roast meat and a cake from the quintessential Women's Weekly birthday cake book
Gareth And-Gill Davies
Had one when I lived in Arthur's pass cooked the best roasts
ichelle Fagan
My nana had a coal range food always tasted so good
Wayne Nicholson
Brings back good memories of scones and perfect roasts.
Susan Barlow
My parents had one. I had cooked my brother a meal of mushrooms, sausages, tomatoes & was about to fry the eggs when the '62 EQ hit. 2 inches of soot covered it all. I gave up cooking pretty much after that ... just as well my parents got an electric s… See More
\Moana Pearl Weaver
I wish I had one Miss baking the buns and making roasts. They always tasted so much better
Wendy Bruce
Ours on the farm was a black leader JE Shacklock & Sons from Liverpool then 1 of these enamel ones (same colour) when mum moved up into Ahaura. She never cooked or baked as well on the more modern 1
Jess Skepper
We had one at Cass in the MoW camp, made great roasts!
Bob Laing
My mother taught me to bake cakes and biscuits in one of those some 60 years ago.
Sandra Douglas
Bob Laing i used to hav put
2-pieces dry
& 1 - wet when mum was baking .
Lois McMillan
Fabulous ovens
Donna Marie Morgan
Just like my Nana’s in Blackball
Marilyn Podmore
I remember Nana Haines one in the old kamara pub. She cooked a lovely Sunday roast
Shona Ratana
Wonderful cooker Happy memories from Dobson Ohau St childhood.
Linda Reedy
Everything cooked perfect especially the roasts and scone
Anne Stapleton
Yes the old railway houses always had them.
Sheryl Cooke
Anne Stapleton we were railway kids, but mum certainly mastered these ovens, we had the best home baking ever
Anne Stapleton
Yes we did too.
Danelle McIntyre
Loved ours always a good roast, scones, anything.. but our black cat loved getting in the oven early in the morning when it was first lit, Mum would have to check he wasn't in the oven when she shut the door !! Our school socks would've been in there… See More
Murry McKendry
Best for Roasts, Sponges & fruitcakes
Sandra Douglas
Murry McKendry yep my mum baked at least 5-6 diff things mon wed fri & she watched the clock soon as it went in .. for me not being able to see it I never knew how she got it right !because when you open the door you lose all the heat .but I never seen… See More
Monica Harvey
I had one just loved it best tasting roasts it took me a while to cook on electric
Julie Pickering
Ruby had one in canvastown too
Rose Sixtus
Monica Harvey hello Monica remember me?
Norm Lovelock
Wow that brings back memories.
Joy Meyer
We cooked on it and Dad would hang his work sox over the oven door to air them.
Nathan Deroo
Dean de Roo
Andy Grigg
Got a spare one....
Paul Agnes Smith
Never forget the smell of damp socks, drying on the register.....
Rose Sixtus
You cant beat a coalrange
Susan McEnroe
Love the coal range. Used one for many, many years.
Stuart McMillan
Best way to cook
Elaine Bolitho
Can just about smell it -- aah!
Helen Back
Brilliant, love cooking with them, perfect roasts every time...
Anne Bruce
Oven was also used to 'defrost' orphan lambs during freezing Spring rain. Wrapped them in a towel and put in oven, door open, for a very short time. Then placed, stlll wrapped, on rhe hearth. They never roasted until older and fatter.
Wendy Bruce
Anne that pre-roasting made them extra tasty
David Atkinson
Love the smell of coal on the coast burning... it must get the hackles up on the tree hugger planet savers..
Robin Gibbens
David Atkinson Me to , love the smell F- - k the greens all dreams
Jillian Nuth
David Atkinson absolutely my favorite
Jason Garland
Still love our coal range
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Jason Garland
Wiamangaroa, west coast
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Jason Garland love Waimangaroa
Maggie Boot
Much good food from that wonderful stove
Warner Nut Curry
Thats a real bobby dazzler
James Newby
Mum would get My father to bring home the venison necks as well as the meat,she would get the Blaketown butcher to cut them thinly on the band saw and then leave it slowly cooking on the coal range and only adding a large bottle of DB,( no water)and v… See More
Martin James
I still cook on one. Christmas cakes for a fundraising group
Martin James
Watters Range... made in Christchurch well before 1900.
Murry McKendry
Cuppa always at hand with that many kettles
Martin James
Murry McKendry absolutely but look out when i find who doesnt refill them or lets them boil dry
Joanne Matthews
Gaylene Donaldson Dot Donaldson thought this photo was nanas kitchen when I first looked
Gaylene Donaldson
Joanne Matthews yeh see what you mean
Dot Donaldson
Joanne Matthews yes it really looks like Mums
Karlene Jane Batchelor
Anthea Harkerss
Len Brereton
Didn't know Harold was a tiler as well as good coal miñer
Heather Newby
Len Brereton haha.. He was quite handy at things like that.
Justine Johansson
Omg we had exactly the same one which I learnt to bake in with my mum
Lindsay Forrest
My nana in Coakley St Blaketown had one of those!!
Valda May Pattinson
Cooked scones in my mother in laws coal range oven in 5 minutes once. I was gobsmacked.
Jillian Nuth
I am so jealous I want one so badly
Ray Chandler
My Mums leg of lamb from one of those was just the best on a Sunday.
Dave Malone
I was the chief stoker at age 8 yrs,wood cut 2" sq and 8" long' of one the same in the mid 60's,had them most of my life,just boiled the kettle on the latest one i put in about 4yrs ago after wearing out the previous one.Now they take logs.The meter re… See More
Fran Townsend
Still have 1 of them today!
Dianne Manera
Best roast meat and baking come out of those ovens. Nice and moist, not dried out. Yum
Heather Newby
Dianne Manera i remember the roast mutton
Dianne Manera
The best
Carol Appelman
Dianne Manera my nana only cooked on one of these.made yummy bread and scones
Maria Sunderland
Dianne Manera i agree still remember my grandmother's Sunday roast it was the best! Have had a roast at petes hut a couple of times too just to use the coal range
Dianne Manera
Carol Appelman then we dried the kindling wood in it, he he
Kath Jim Anderson
Had a Coal range when we were first married did my best baking in it.
Margaret Milne
Made the best roast ever
Vern Pattinson
Same as our old one
David Rodgers
Our family also had one in the 50's (a black one). Wish I had photographed it. Lot of memories there.
Lynette Clarkson
Yip we had a Shacklock 501 in Seddonville loved it.
Jock Allen
thats a flash one Heather enamel doors our one was an orion with cast iron doors and a large flip over latch to close the oven Best roasts ever and with the girdle scones on top YUMMY used to soot it once a week
Tina Marie Bertacco-Morton
My grandparents had one.
Denise Kelly Willis
I learned to cook on one of those and my Nana wouldn't use the electric stove at all
Jenny Leach
used to love my coal range used to cook all the time on it wonderful roasts,stews and soups
Sue Vaukins
Oh the smell of that Sunday roast
Thelma Coutts
My Mother cooked on our coal range all her married life. My Father bought her an electric stove and she would not have it installed at all. All her cooking and baking was wonderful as it was all cooked slowly.
Debbie Hughes
Thelma Coutts I can vouch for that. Always something yum to eat
Sue Tozer
Cook on one regularly . Heats bach. Water. Dries wet hunting gear. Best invention ever. Love mine.
Charil Milne
Best ever stove for doing huge family roast
Allan Quinn
Same coul
Allan Quinn
Same colour as my mum and dad had
Michelle Macilquham
I always have wonderful memories of my Nana cooking on hers
Del Godfrey
Lucky you Sue Tozer, great for pikelet making too! Remember mums one and cooked the best roast!
Thelma Coutts
She used to get that range really hot didn’t she?
Anna Reiha Walters
Your meals and baking were faultless Trish Rennie x
Trish Rennie
Oh...that's so very kind of you to say so Anna...I do love to cook. Took me a while to adapt to the electric and soon it will be induction cook tops so more learning
Rosemary Garaway
I used to cook on these when we lived there. Took a but to master but I did it
Michelle Martin
Alisonandchris Blanchfield and Frank Blanchfield looks like the one at the batch?
Joy Hill-Cooper
I had one in my house in Ross, loved cooking on it
Joy Leach
Cooking on the coal range was great
Craig Brooks
Jason Ross your nana show us how to cook on one of these
Pauline Healey
What a great little coal range. Sounds like it's got a personality of its own☺️
Murry McKendry
Pauline Healey They certainly do especially when you had to clean the register of soot.
Zilla Steele
That certainly brings back memories
Margaret Harrington
My Aunty Barbara (Quate) had a black one, and the fire would be blazing, she would open the oven door and put her hand in and say just right for the scones, or cheese straws, fruit cake. She was a great baker
Anna Panther
I had one when I got married & loved using it to cook with - never baked in it but roasts & casseroles were bloody good
Mike Waghorne
We had a black one in Brunner in the 1950s. It was my job to clear out all the spot from time to time. I can't remember when it was boarded up and replaced by an electric stove.Linzi Woods
Simply The best - cook - heat water - keep warm - No worries when there is a power cut.
Wayne Nicholson
Brings back fond memories. Nana cooking my brekkie.
Tania Wilmott
The days when the house was warm, lovely smells coming from the kitchen, endless hot water for a deep bath and warm toasty towels to dry off with, even in a power cut!
Wayne Gazzard
We had one in our first house took a bit off getting used to but cooked a good roast
Wayne Gazzard i grew up with it and thats all i knew
Brian Case
Great to cook on bake and heat water
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Brian Case those roast Bro .But the dumplings .yum .
Brian Case
Barbara Fitzsimmons looking after girls ask them to light fire to heat water came home no fire going no hot water no tea for them next day told them to light fire came home water going 2o feet in the air asked how long water been doing they said about …
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Brian Case dont get others to do .what ya can do yaself .mum told you that .
Brian Case
Barbara Fitzsimmons yes mums are always right
Wayne Madden
Awesome I remember that
Jil Cowan
They are the best
Darrell Andrews
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Chris Kelly
i like those ones, you can lower the great and put wood in them
Gary Patrick
They were great
Vicki Roper
I love how we all had the fire door open watching the flames
Bob Laing
Ken Joan Campbell
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Had one the same. Loved it.
Chrissy Thompson
Can't go wrong with a good coal range. Miss ours
Barbara Pearce
Wish I still had one
Grant Haworth
Barbara Pearce the best ovens to bake and roast in
Alan-Lynda Hogg
We had one of these when we bought our house in Cobden in 1976 loved it
Trevor Hutt
Still remember that Sunday roast been done in the coal range... Yummiest
Rosemary Matthews
My first stove when i got married 1970. Would still love to have one.
Bill Rex Matthews
Rosemary Matthews that's when you were able to get it going aunty but yeah can't beat the old coat range.
Rosemary Matthews
Bill Rex Matthews Hahaha precious time in our lives Billy.. You were my saviour teaching me how to keep it going.. lucky you fellas got fed to start with.x
Christine Busch
Love the wood range..its the hub of the kitchen...many warm memories...
Marg Power
Just got one the same to take down to our whitebait hut at Jacobs River looking forward to a family roast.
Andy Bone
Scones on the range mmmmm peg topps Sunday roast
Maxine Fortune
Andy Bone she made the best roast potatoes
Donna Klocke
Maxine Fortune she certainly did !
Bronwen Skates
Bought up with a coal range and learnt how to bake in one . Getting the fire built up to get right temperature etc prior to baking. Best roasts always cooked in challenge. Plates all warming up on rack and very important the big kettle always on back hob for cups of tea
Joy Beveridge
Bronwen Skates Same here, roasts on Sunday, devine and the bread, took some beating. Those were the days.
Raewyn Louttit
Make the best porridge ever
John Fowler
Sunday roast to die for. Can’t get them the same with electric.
Nova Hichens
Brings back memories, good food & baking & warmth.
Nova Hichens
Remember mums roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding,!and all the baking she done for weddings etc,and the kettle always on the boil,
Wayne Leckie
Mum and dad had one
BrianJoyce Hassan
Grew up in Waimaunga with one of them
Maxine Fortune
She made the best roast potatoes!
Angela Brookes
Can't beat the good old coal range. Perfect when there's a power cut.
Kathy Ann Rozynski
Grew up with this on holidays in Nelson creek with Gordon and Jess Dalziel my favourite place
Doug Griffin
We had one in my early years
Stephen Mawer
Doug Griffin we have one in our house
Gary Blackhawk
Currently looking for a RH Shacklock 501 the same as this. Need the main cast iron top plate which is under the enamel one or a complete oven in good condition to use instead. Please PM me if you have something available.
Suzi Kiely
Such a hub in the kitchen. Cooking, baking, heating, heating hot water cylinder, dying washing such a versatile, time consuming and dusty but loving kitchen hub!
Pamela Gibson
Great way of cooking I do remember
Phyllis Aberhart
My elder daughter who is now early 50's learnt to cook on one.
Jackie Fluerty
Fruit cake is so much nicer cooked in that oven.
Tony Mulholland
I still have one sitting in my shed.good straight tops
Tracy Rogers
Miriam Rogers nup lol
Helen Joan Forrest
So many people have great memories of the coal range. I have mixed emotions about them. Certainly they kept the home warm and dry, cooked yummy meals, dried clothes, tea pots at the ready etc. I absolutely loathed cleaning up the dragon. Scrapping the ashes etc out and being covered in soot. There was one in the first house we lived in Reefton and it did everything others loved. It was the only reason I wanted to run away. No way I will ever live in a house with one again. Best scones though.
Bruce Dando
Same as our old one at 126.
Kuini Ginty
Julee Mae Gints looks like our old one
Miriam Rogers
Stephen Rogers and Miriam Rogers going to buy
Miriam Rogers
Yep going to buy Tracy Rogers
Tracy Rogers would be good in dining room xx
Glenys Elizabeth Martin
Matter of learning how to use them, the older style iron ones were the absolute best my Mum got a new one after earthquake, and I had both kinds during g my married life, like everything practice makes perfect,not that I was ever perfect,but had hea… See more
Donna Marie Morgan
Just like my Nana’s in Blackball
Jillian Gardyne
Also great for warming the feet on in those very frosty Otira mornings as a child.
Pam Mcmanus
They are the best, I had one many years ago.
Elizabeth Shaw
When we go back to the coast i just the smell of the coal fires
Trish Griffin
The best pork crackling ever cooked in that old range
Ngareta Orchard
Soup pot on stove in the winter when we got home from school lovely sponges
John Sara
We had one the Same at 21 Blake Street, would love to have one now
Rauma McIlwraith
And a leg of roasted mutton baked whole Snapper yummy
Don Pearce
Had one the same too.In Westport.
Gaye Waide
Have a Stanley - beaut meals and baking ...copious hot water
Sue Murdoch
coal range's do the best roasties
Jenny Leach
Had one just the same in ruatapu it was a real winner in the winter loved it heated the water as well
Phil Millar
My aunty Sybil Forbes always had the Kettle on for a cup of tea,she lived opposite Victoria Park Raceway!
Marilyn O'Donnell
Hi girls Judy must have taken after Aunty Margaret as she was good at baking. Loved her yo yos. Xx
Sandra Rooney
Had one like that in Te Kinga it was great in winter.
Nadia Thekiwione Tainui
Marilyn Johansson
Carol Thomson
I remember having to light the fire and bring the wood in to keep it going. Would love one of these now. Do they still make them?
Mary Costello
How Cool
Warren Beckett
My brother still use his in nightcaps an with coal
Reply10h
My grandmother had one of these, almost exactly the same. I still remember the kettle always bubbling away, and bringing in the firewood from the shed to keep it going
Vern Pattinson
Right hand oven same as our one and color shacklock 501
Sandra Arnott
Vern Pattinson we had the same!
Bronwen Skates
Sandra Arnott same here
Saali Marks
I grew up with a shacklock 501 too
Eileen O'Neil
Sandra Loveday look familiar? X
Dianne Manera
Meat and cakes don’t dry out like they do in these damn fan bakes do. As someone said the roasts were the best.
Maureen Shaw
My mother heated her irons on one to keep our clothes ironed and wrinkle free, also when she baked always left some egg in the shell and cooked it try on range for me to teaspoon out
Anne Honey
Miss having a coal range a warm kitchen in the morning always hot water a pot of soup in winter. Roasts dont taste the same in an electric oven.
Glenda Robbins
best roasts ever
Jason Garland
We have one in our Bach and love it. They can certainly put out the heat. I have 4 of them now lol
Terry Harding
We had one when I was young. Mum kept on using it long after a brother got a job and bought her an electric one. I have no reason why, but it's in my mind that things cooked on the old range tasted different, maybe better. It stayed in place until the dining room and lounge were extensively remodeled just before Mum passed.
David Rodgers
This photo brings back many personal memories. I'm glad that someone recorded this image
Paddy Oconnell
Brings back good memories
Jock Allen
We had an ORION plenty of great roasts came out of that oven also kept the house really warm my job was to soot it
Margaret Malloch
Wonderful for cooking and keeping place nice and warm especially winter time I was about 11 when mum and dad got electric but range still there for use
Elleyna Rennie
This was our coal range
May be an image of indoor
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Lorraine O'Donoghue
Oh how I miss the coal range! I would have it back tomorrow if possible!
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Linda Hughes
Oh how I wish I had one of these!
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Koroheke Hemopo
,,,,,, Oooohhh the memories
Shona Ratana
Looks like the oven we had too??
Steve Oak
Vanessa Oakley
Richard Howe
My Grandmother had one, and it was wonderful in the winter.
Michael Riki
My Nan cook the meanest roast and added pumpkin, Kumara and her spinach was so Devine loved my Nan’s cooking
Karen Da Via
You just can't beat a coal range.
Kevin Freeth
Looks exactly like my Nana s one 57 years ago
Kevin Freeth
And you related to a Shane Newby?
Selwyn Leitch
Indeed. I recall my grandmother in Christchurch warming her feet in the Coal range oven in the winter.
Nicola Bourke
Happy memories
Brian McIntyre
I can feel the heat coming off your stove
Bronwen Skates
When you think of the cost of power and power cuts that some places endure during winter a coal range would be a Godsend. It was our source of cooking . Hot water and as children on cold winter mornings my late mum would open oven door and warm our clothes over it while we dressed in the warmth as back then bedrooms were icy cold
Cheryl Roberts
Child hood memories
Marilyn Jones
Great memories for me sitting around a fire just like this one. So many stories told and the fire just kept on burning. It was in Blaketown as well.
Teresa McLaughlin
Remember this in Ngahere
Manda Watts
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