AGA Stories - with the fuel type "Solid Fuel" (98)

Heart of house – Petrou

Our AGA is a 1936 Model C for which we have all the original instructions,It was installed in '36, It is 4 oven solid fuel and runs on solid fuel to this day very efficiently.It is used on a daily basis and is serviced once a year(with monthly cle...

Christmas Dinner – Grace

We live in a small village rural Cumbria. Sevearl tears ago the electrical supply to the village was cut off by bad weather on Christmas Eve, the power stayed off for the next 3 days, there is no gas supply in the village. Our solid fuel Aga was ...

Best wedding present – Hazel

When we married in 1980, my parents bought us a 12 year old second hand solid fuel Aga. It lay in bits in a barn, my Father said this was the best way to check the condition of the barrel and water jacket etc. Nearly 29 years on it is still going...

A member of the family – Tom B

My parents had their first home in an old farmouse in Northamptonshire,and moved into thehouse shortly after being married in 1951. Both were working at the time for the Ministry of Agriculture and left to run the mixed farm. Mum was an enthusia...

Indespensible aga. – 'Betty'

Our lovely aga has been in the farmhouse unchanged, since 1952. I am 'her' third owner, and inherited her in 2006, and have enjoyed learning the nuances that go hand-in-hand with an aga run on solid fuel. I feel I understand her completely now! ...

PENNY HASSETT AGA – Paula and Brian

My friend Maggie rang to say there was an Advert in a local paper, an old farmhouse was being demolished, original Aga for sale for £50.00, solid fuel, buyer dismantles within 2 weeks, think it had been there since the early 1950s. Malcolm (her...

My lovely huge Aga – Ann Griffiths

We bought the Aga for £35 in 1967 from a house in Worcester where it had been installed but had never been used. It cost more to have it stored whilst we renovated our black and white listed cottage and eventually (c 1970) installed than we had p...

Help! we are suffocating... – Fallout victim

We've lived in this house for over 50 years and my 84 year old mother will hear no criticism of her beloved AGA. She is as resistant to change as the granite of the Grampians. But living in the apartment upstairs has become a suffocating existence...

Our rayburn – calmac

Live in large victorian house. oil fired central heating. did not produce enough heat for the house, along came our rayburn to save the day, great. next job is to install an H2 control panel to link the rayburn to the existing oil fired heating sy...

2 lost years – argyllaga

we had been in the house for 2 years before we got round to firing it up. what a revelation, kitchen is now warmest room and cooking is much more fun.

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