Wartime (1944) Canal Photos

[Derek R.]

14 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

I'm no expert, but would say both the vertical stoves are simple paraffin affairs, not pressurised, just with a wick.  Not unlike the things my dad used as greenhouse heater.

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They are Valor Minor heaters, wick stoves using paraffin. Running correctly they will produce a blue flame:

Primus and Optimus, along with other pressure stoves such as Monitor and SH&S (Samuel Heath & Sons, Birmingham - extant) were also used. A Primus No.3 was a big beats, and used for heating a wash tub on the towpath. Held about 7 pints of paraffin.

Valor Minor:

Edited March 10, 2018 by Derek R.

[Derek R.]

Love these two:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/canals/QgFkWJ-gww5okg

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/canals/SwGuc7AZ0Qn4uA

Trolley bus, steam trains, barrage balloons, detritus. Workaday grime. What a relief it must have been to get out in the 'fields'. And what a world apart and now gone forever. Some (many) will say good riddance, but we lost something intangible.

[Derek R.]

OK, I'm a stovie anorak (a bit).

A Primus No.3, as handed down to me from Ian Tyler, and passed to him from Alf Best, and prior to re-fitting lost parts:

 

And roaring away on the workbench. The discoloured flames are due to traces of detritus in the tank.

 

Wartime product from Samuel Heath & Sons. Due to the demand for brass in ammunitions, steel was used for tanks during this period. This one has a 'silent' burner as opposed to the 'roarer' type.

 

The name Tilley has been used for a great variety of lamps and stoves rather like 'Hoover' has been used for vacuum cleaners, though Tilley specialised mostly in lamps and a few heaters. Their stoves - at least the paraffin fuelled ones - were adaptations of a lamp, and quite collectors items today. Similarly, 'Primus' has been used for many stoves of the pressurised kind.

 

[Jrtm]

On 09/03/2018 at 16:48, alan_fincher said:

I wonder what the BSS people would have to say about these cooking arrangements!

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/canals/sgGlKFUrKVqbzQ

Hopefully nothing as this is the same as my cooking on boats! Its the fire or parffin. Ive only cooked once with gas and i threw the cooker out the next day and went back to my primus and heater stoves

Edited March 28, 2018 by billybobbooth

[NB Esk]

2 hours ago, billybobbooth said:

Hopefully nothing as this is the same as my cooking on boats! Its the fire or parffin. Ive only cooked once with gas and i threw the cooker out the next day and went back to my primus and heater stoves

Photo clearly taken in the summer time.

[Jrtm]

18 hours ago, NB Esk said:

Photo clearly taken in the summer time.

Could be first thing ish, we tended not to light fire first thing as get covered in coal and means have to use up water to wash hands, we tend to light a heater and primus heat up a kettle and cook breakfast if its not full English, get washed and dressed then light fire.

[pete harrison]

7 minutes ago, billybobbooth said:

Could be first thing ish, we tended not to light fire first thing as get covered in coal and means have to use up water to wash hands, we tend to light a heater and primus heat up a kettle and cook breakfast if its not full English, get washed and dressed then light fire.

When I worked the boats I lit my fire on 01 September and let it go out on Easter Sunday as it easily 'stayed in' overnight. If I needed to mess with the fire first thing in the morning I would do it immediately before I had a wash, and as a boatman I was never able to afford a full English 

[NB Esk]

15 minutes ago, billybobbooth said:

Could be first thing ish, we tended not to light fire first thing as get covered in coal and means have to use up water to wash hands, we tend to light a heater and primus heat up a kettle and cook breakfast if its not full English, get washed and dressed then light fire.

Good point, my astuteness isn't all that astute...

3 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

When I worked the boats I lit my fire on 01 September and let it go out on Easter Sunday as it easily 'stayed in' overnight. If I needed to mess with the fire first thing in the morning I would do it immediately before I had a wash, and as a boatman I was never able to afford a full English 

Lol, good one Pete.

[Jrtm]

1 hour ago, pete harrison said:

When I worked the boats I lit my fire on 01 September and let it go out on Easter Sunday as it easily 'stayed in' overnight. If I needed to mess with the fire first thing in the morning I would do it immediately before I had a wash, and as a boatman I was never able to afford a full English 

Tend to get up and if im going boating ill wash my hands on the water outlet, or save the hand bowl till im up lite fire and use hand bowl. 7/10 over winter fire will have stayed in, if i could stand the heat! Ive slept with the doors open in winter quite a few times.

[pete harrison]

5 minutes ago, billybobbooth said:

Tend to get up and if im going boating ill wash my hands on the water outlet, or save the hand bowl till im up lite fire and use hand bowl. 7/10 over winter fire will have stayed in, if i could stand the heat! Ive slept with the doors open in winter quite a few times.

Hmmm................ getting up and washing in canal water sounds like a different type of boating to what I do  

[Jrtm]

3 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

Hmmm................ getting up and washing in canal water sounds like a different type of boating to what I do  

What you have to do a bolly give you good hand wash hot water! (I will have washed my hands in clean water before eating ect)

[BuckbyLocks]

Photos were taken in May 1944.

[Jrtm]

I did see that but thought it might be photo number 5? But i did think may to start