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| Owner: |
Keith Pascall |
| Model: |
Cream 2-door |
| Vintage: |
c1935 |
| Location: |
Plymouth |
| Snapshot: |
Keith and his late wife, Evelyn, inherited their AGA when they moved to their country cottage just outside Plymouth in the 1950s. The couple were possibly the world’s oldest AGA owners – at the time of Evelyn’s death she was 98 and Keith, 96, still lives in the house they shared and continues to use the AGA. The couple’s son, Charlie, says his parents never used anything else. “It has been their only method of cooking, and has been alight, apart from the odd service, continuously. However, they did succumb to modernisation by having it converted to oil in 1997, when they began to struggle lifting the coal hod.” Charlie says that generations of family and friends have been comforted by the AGA. “But not only humans – Keith kept a Jersey house cow years ago, whose sickly calf was standing in front of the AGA, overlooked by some rather prim home help, when the vet wandered in and pronounced, with a wink, ‘I’m sorry ma’am, there’s nothing else for it. We’ll have to bring the mother in too!’” |
| Finest Hour: |
Reviving calves and feeding folk for lifetimes. |
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