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As a change from green kitchens, lets have an orange one. I think from the logo on the sink unit that these are Grovewood Daintymaid (such a cute name!) and will date from the 1970s. Actually this looks like a classic example of a kitchen that has been extended, something quite common place these days but back in the 1970s it was really going for it to extend the space as well as refit it. It looks like the oven, hob and hood are 1980s (late) or 1990s (early) Hotpoint replacements.

I would be looking at my £500 a long while before I would be spending it on this!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970s-Bri...still-standing-collection-only-/191848385857?
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And now for something completely different

I don't often feature Hi-Fi and stuff like that (its not that I am not interested I just do not have the time) but I thought I would share this with you. Someone has gone to a lot of effort to craft a cabinet from a car stereo. 8 tracks never really caught on here, more so in cars than domestic and I once even saw an 8 track recorder. I think whoever made this did quite a good job

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1...034752?hash=item2a650de0c0:g:zHUAAOSwGYVXBhJo
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Reply #69

You're right - they did a great job for what was a pretty conservative (modest)8-track. Avid woodworker who designed and built this, probably had more fun building it than using it - maybe. :-)
 
I remember those Philips electric corkscrews. Probably best to let it go.  I'm still using my Moulinex FP but I broke that little plastic Mixer attachment that goes in the bowl years and years ago mixing coleslaw.  
 
Belling Compact Fantasia

This cooker is one third the size of the one previously posted! Its unusual in that it comes with a fan oven although there was also a fan version of the competing Creda Cavalier. It also has a dual element hotplate which I think neither the Creda nor the Tricity Contessa offered. I would say its mid 1970s.

North American readers might be interested in the connection unit also shown. No plugs for us - our cookers have to be hard wired into their own, exclusive circuit. On the other hand we always (or should always) have an isolating switch (and I have posted many here in the past - often with a power outlet). The cable travels down the wall to one of these simple junction boxes - you are looking at the back of course - where the cable from the cooker is connected. In the normal course of events the isolating switch should not need to be removed to connect the cooker

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162042709199?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
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