70’s solution for -7 temperatures
I thought we’d got rid of all of these!
I was interested in the picture of “Gorgeous” George Elsom in the Shields Gazette this evening campaigning on behalf of his electors on the Lonnen, South Shields. Didn’t his skin look just radiant and glowing, and if you look closely there’s a smudge of fake tan on the corner of his notebook. Perhaps if he’d invited a few more councillors around they could have generated even more hot air than the ancient heating systems!
Seriously though, I thought we’d got rid of these ridiculous hot brick heaters years ago, we endured a similar heating system in the early to mid 1970s and it was a total waste of space. The only time or way to get warm was to huddle round the hot bricks or vents between 10:30 and noon, any later than that was too late! We ended up having to use an electric fire to heat one room in the evenings and cook the next day’s meals after Coronation Street just to keep the house warm at night!
They should all have been consigned to Beamish Museum in 1980s.
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The older ones are useless – the more modern ones, made in the 1990s and later, are actually not bad. I had both sorts as a student and while I gave up on the older one after a year and bought two electric radiators, the newer ones kept me warm without the slightest trouble all day very cheaply throughout the winter.
That said, I still prefer my nice new gas central heating for my current place, as it is oh so much easier to adjust in line with the temperature…
The Half-Blood Welshman
January 7, 2009 at 11:33 am