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.
Category: cast iron range
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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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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!
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Beeston Boiler Robinhood Junior
This is a Robin Hood Junior boiler that we have restored for the newly restored gardens of Hadspen House, Somerset. It was first installed in 1926 in the Co-op Warehouse, Hayling Island and provided heating for the entire facility. Osborne Restoration source this extremely rare appliances and have brought it back to working condition to power the glass house at the historic gardens.
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Gold Medal Eagle Range
Here we have another Gold Medal Eagle Range. This model is one of the first to have the ventilating canopy though it sports a different design to the later New Gold Medal Eagle range. This range was installed into the kitchen of Triley Court, Abergavenny when the kitchens were extended circa 1900-1910.
Extensive work was carried out in order to bring this range back into working order though the client stopped short in not requiring the ovens to be functional. Huge efforts were made in clearing the chimney by out team and a total of thirty bags of soot, dust, dead birds and other filth were removed before repairs could begin. Patterns and replacement castings were produced as well as countless repaired parts using mechanical, brazing and electric welding techniques.
