FIRES THAT NEVER DIE
It is the custom on the Yorkshire moors to keep the "home fires burning" without a break for years. The turf fires have been known to burn in one house for 100 years. - A patch of "ling" on the open moor is fired. After all the top has been burned off, the turf is cut with a special turf spade. The length is about 18in by 12in. The ling roots, peat, soil, and mpsa are, -when dry, fine fuel. The turf is dried, taken home, and stacked near the house ready foi home use. The turf fire is a very clean fire, with no "grime" about the hearth, pans, or kettles. At night, before retiring, the housewife takes a "wick" or unburnt turf and puta it flat on the hearth-plate underneath the hot ashes. Next morning she just takes the ashes oS the top, and there Is the red glowing fire, to which a new supply of turf is added to make the kettle sing in a minute or two. It is a custom very wisely continued by tho moorland, dwellers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 3
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185FIRES THAT NEVER DIE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 3
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