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Owner: Leah Clayton
Model: Black 2-door
Vintage: 2008
Location: Northern Cyprus
Snapshot: Leah grew up with AGAs and Rayburns and was a devotee of Mary Berry’s cooking classes until the family moved to a Tuscan stone farmhouse in Northern Cyprus in August 2004. Leah remembers telling her husband: “I’ll go anywhere with you, as long as I can have an AGA!” Although her husband thought her quite mad as the summer temperatures are usually 40º C, Leah got her wish – but not without some rather significant setbacks along the way. “I’d ordered my new black AGA and there was some space on a friend’s shipping container, so on the AGA went at Felixstowe and all was going swimmingly until the crew decided to transfer the container on to a river ferry, which then sank. My AGA is now three kilometres below the sea, just off the coast of Famagusta.” Sadly, says Leah, the AGA was not all the family lost. “There was a 65-inch plasma TV, a new oak kitchen and a bathroom suite on that container too!” The loss ended up costing thousands of pounds. However, being a stalwart supporter of AGA, Leah got straight on the phone and asked for another one exactly the same, which arrived safely. “It must be the only AGA in Northern Cyprus,” says Leah who enjoys cooking Mediterranean roast vegetables and Moroccan lamb dishes in her English country kitchen. The AGA keeps up the British tradition of drying Leah’s three daughters’ school uniforms and keeping the many cats, dogs, chameleons and goldfish warm.
Finest Hour: Arriving just in time for Christmas – only four years late.