I am hoping that someone from the UK can explain the big black stove in the kitchen. The house had gas service installed after it was built, according to the story, and I imagine that the domestic hot water was somehow heated by this thing, too. It might have been retrofitted from something coal-fired. I am hoping that a historian familiar with stoves in the UK can share some information. Thank you in advance.
Kitchen Stove in Ghost & Mrs. Muir
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I'm assuming the stove in the 1947 film is an American one, the location it was done is near Stillwater Cove in Pebble Beach.
https://filmmonterey.org/film/the-ghost-and-mrs-muir/
I added some pictures of the stove.
I'm assuming the stove in the 1947 film is an American one, the location it was done is near Stillwater Cove in Pebble Beach.
https://filmmonterey.org/film/the-ghost-and-mrs-muir/
I added some pictures of the stove.
Thank you Louis. I have never seen a stove that looked like that. I did not stop to think that it was a domestic stove.
You have to look fast because this is Pinterest and they will throw you out if you do not log in, but I found some Victorian stoves that begin to resemble the stove in the kitchen of the captain's cottage.
I got the picture, here it is.
They might have imported that stove from the UK, but that would have been a lot of trouble I think.
They might have imported that stove from the UK, but that would have been a lot of trouble I think.
Victorian Stove
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir stove is typical of mid 19th century domestic stoves. They look odd to Americans because they typically were built to fit pre-existing "walk in" kitchen fireplaces from the 18th century.
The BBC did a show a while back in which a neglected Victorian farm house was restored for occupancy, including the stove. I have attached the Youtube address and the point of interest starts at 26 minutes. I'm sure that at some point this kind of stove had a water back (a hot-water generator tank)as American stoves did, but I can't say for this model.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir stove is typical of mid 19th century domestic stoves. They look odd to Americans because they typically were built to fit pre-existing "walk in" kitchen fireplaces from the 18th century.
The BBC did a show a while back in which a neglected Victorian farm house was restored for occupancy, including the stove. I have attached the Youtube address and the point of interest starts at 26 minutes. I'm sure that at some point this kind of stove had a water back (a hot-water generator tank)as American stoves did, but I can't say for this model.
Fascinating, Bill. Thank you.
I figured that the grate portion had something to do with the fire, but did not know how it worked or how the heat traveled to the oven at the side. I guess that is where people learned to rotate things in the oven when one side was hotter. Interesting that the stoves were made to fit into big kitchen fireplaces. Gas was a definitely an upgrade. Decades ago, I toured the William Paca House in Annapolis along with some other grand colonial era mansions. We saw the huge fireplaces. A lot of the cooking was done on the hearth over coals raked out of the embers under the fire. The pans were on legs to hold them above the coals. That is where skillets got the name of "spiders." The wife of the inventor of the Hotpoint Calrod unit said that it was like cooking over flameless glowing embers so there is a long history of cooking over embers. This stove was an advance over bending over to do hearth-side cooking. Thank you again.
I figured that the grate portion had something to do with the fire, but did not know how it worked or how the heat traveled to the oven at the side. I guess that is where people learned to rotate things in the oven when one side was hotter. Interesting that the stoves were made to fit into big kitchen fireplaces. Gas was a definitely an upgrade. Decades ago, I toured the William Paca House in Annapolis along with some other grand colonial era mansions. We saw the huge fireplaces. A lot of the cooking was done on the hearth over coals raked out of the embers under the fire. The pans were on legs to hold them above the coals. That is where skillets got the name of "spiders." The wife of the inventor of the Hotpoint Calrod unit said that it was like cooking over flameless glowing embers so there is a long history of cooking over embers. This stove was an advance over bending over to do hearth-side cooking. Thank you again.
