ChrisB suggests AGA cookers have always been for the wealthy. My
recollection from when my parents retired to an old isolated house in
the hills of fifties Britain, is that they were the means used for
cooking and heating if you were 'off-grid' (ie no mains gas, electricity
or public water supply).
That solid fueled system certainly warmed the kitchen and some heat
seeped elsewhere in the house, but the off-grid location meant the
houses could be cheap enough for the impecunious to buy. Due to its
location, I declined the offer of 50% of the house when my widowed
step-mother moved out and it certainly did not prove easy to sell in the
sixties.
Brian
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