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Beeston Boiler Robinhood Junior 5B
This is the 1920s Beeston Boiler ‘Robinhood Junior 5B’ from an earlier post. We have now installed the boiler on site in the basement of a new glasshouse built in the high Victorian style. This boiler producing a whopping 52,000 BTU of hot water (approx 25Kw) will be pumping water through 4″ pipework to ensure the glasshouse stays warm all year round.
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Smith & Wellstood ‘Wellstood Sidelight’
This is one of our largest restorations to date. It is a fantastic examples of a 1920s kitchen range and was one of the most extensive and impressive models available at the time. With art deco styling, extensive polishing, nickel plating, tiles and even walnut oven knobs there is nothing quite like the ‘Wellstood sidelight’. This range has been restored back to fully operational condition and will be in regular use.
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Beetonette Portable range restoration
We completed the restoration of a nice early 20th c Beetonette Portable Range with high pressure boiler this week. It is now on its way to its new home in Ireland.
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Gradient kitchen range, R.Russell & Sons Ltd, Peel Foundry, Derby
This is a ‘Gradient’ range which is the brother to the much more famous ‘Herald’ range manufactured by R.Russell & Sons Ltd, Peel Foundry, Derby. This was a later addition (circa 1915) to a Georgian property in Bath and likely replaced the original roasting grate. As you can see the original central arch that is flanked by both hotplate and copper has been squared off to receive this range.
This range had laid dormant since the 1960’s when the kitchen moved to the first floor. It still had pots and pans on the top plate and baking trays in the oven when we came to do our site visit. We were asked to bring it back to working order but before we got started we had to have the chimney cleared. The job took all day as five decades of birds nest and general detritus was removed and bagged before the chimney could be swept. It was a mammoth task but the range is now happily at home and in use once again.
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Yorkshire Range restoration
This range was found boarded up in a room that had been used as a dentists surgery in Batley. When we arrived the range was evidently in very poor order with parts missing, damaged or simply corroded so badly that they were as thin as paper. We removed the range, took it back to our workshops and after a lot of work were able to reinstate it in the same fireplace. Much to the delight of our client we lit a fire before leaving to test the range and demonstrate how it works. It was the first fire lit in its grate for over 80 years.
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1870s Carron Company ‘Open Range’
This is an interesting ‘open range’ that we restored for a client in Scotland. It dates from the 1870s and was most likely manufactured by Carron Company, Stirlingshire. It was in a terrible state when it arrived with several missing parts and many original parts beyond repair. We carried out the full restoration here at our workshops in Bristol and brought it back to life again before shipping it back to Scotland to be installed.
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Hostess No 34 Stove range, Columbian Stove & Iron Works
Here we have the very rare Hostess No.34. This one has been made entirely by ourselves here in Bristol from our own patterns. This has been manufactured as an exact replicas of the originals except all sheet metal has been replaced with Stainless Steel and the high finish electroplating is now triple plated copper, nickel, nickle. The green colour is Vitreous Enamel (fused galss) and is available in 5 different original colours. These little ranges can be made to order.
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DUX Kitchen range, William Green & Co Ltd of Ecclesfield
This is a DUX manufactured by William Green & Co Ltd of Ecclesfield. It was installed in a property in High Wycombe and was removed and restored by Osborne Restoration back to working order. The original stone surround was damaged beyond repair so we source and restored an original of the same design. This range originally dates from circa 1890 and was in a terrible state when we first surveyed the job. A lot of hard work has gone into bringing this one back from the brink not to mention the rebuilding of half the chimney breast to save it from collapse!
