AGA_Stories
 

Owner: Judi Kemp
Model: Cream 4-oven
Vintage: c1930s
Location: Wolverhampton
Snapshot: Judi and her husband inherited their AGA when they moved into her father-in-law’s farm in the 1980s. The AGA has been there as long as Judi can remember, having moved around the house to accommodate changes. “It started life in the back kitchen when the range was removed and the house had staff living in. When my father-in-law moved in on the death of his father it was moved into the centre of the house. My mother-in-law was a tall lady and had it on a plinth to make it easier to lift the pots and pans. I then had the AGA lowered, so it hasn’t sat still!” Judi’s last surviving aunt recalls a domestic called Bucket, who made delicious scones. She remembers standing round the AGA on the night before the Second World War was declared, eating Bucket’s scones.
Finest Hour: Making a mountainous millennium celebration breakfast for 375.