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Owner: Margaret Shanks
Model: Cream 2-oven
Vintage: c1930s
Location: Wolverhampton
Snapshot: The AGA has been in the Shanks family for four generations and seen many changes in the household. Although bruised from many years of use, it remains at the centre of family life, says Margaret. “It may not be beautiful but it does exude a capable, homely sort of charm.” The AGA, seated at the head of the kitchen, has been unceasingly supportive, says Margaret. “Offering forth tea and comfort in times of crisis, we have celebrated new life and success before it. My children have indulged in teenage tears and angst, stolen first kisses and vexed partings before this silent presence; it has revived and preserved in its warm embrace the half frozen orphan lambs fetched from the icy fields in the middle of the night and heated the milk to nurture it to bawdy adulthood.”
Finest Hour: Enduringly consistent, this AGA has had many fine hours, through the “unrelenting move from the cart horse and scythe to industrial style mechanisation; to post-war plenty and suppers of Moroccan stew with couscous.”