Andrew <Andrew97d@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 29/06/2023 12:41, Vir Campestris wrote:
>> On 28/06/2023 09:46, David wrote:
>>> FYI they used to light it with a gas poker, although I can still
>>> remember the original installer used charcoal and that was almost 70
>>> years ago.
>>
>> I recall my grandparent's Aga being lit with a gas poker back in the 1960s.
>>
>> Andy
>
> That's how Dad lit our Parkray stove/backboiler in the house
> he had built in 1956. It connected to a nifty gas bayonet device
> next to the fire.
>

An aunt had a Parkray. As I recall, the preferred method of lighting was
the gas poker but you could used the “traditional” paper and stick method
people used for coal fires ( back then (the mid 60s) ‘everyone’ had coal
fires, central heating was a luxury and the Parkrays were just being fitted
to some houses).

Using sticks left soot on the glass so was frowned upon.

On 29/07/2023 12:39, Brian wrote:
> Andrew <Andrew97d@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On 29/06/2023 12:41, Vir Campestris wrote:
>>> On 28/06/2023 09:46, David wrote:
>>>> FYI they used to light it with a gas poker, although I can still
>>>> remember the original installer used charcoal and that was almost 70
>>>> years ago.
>>>
>>> I recall my grandparent's Aga being lit with a gas poker back in the 1960s.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>
>> That's how Dad lit our Parkray stove/backboiler in the house
>> he had built in 1956. It connected to a nifty gas bayonet device
>> next to the fire.
>>
>
> An aunt had a Parkray. As I recall, the preferred method of lighting was
> the gas poker but you could used the “traditional” paper and stick method
> people used for coal fires ( back then (the mid 60s) ‘everyone’ had coal
> fires, central heating was a luxury and the Parkrays were just being fitted
> to some houses).
>
> Using sticks left soot on the glass so was frowned upon.

firelighters work well in closed stoves

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