Don't get me started about coal fires..........
When I were a lad, not only did me drinking water freeze over on't widow bottom, but my 'ot water bottle were an iron cylinder full of pebbles, warmed up in't coal oven - and we' a sock 'ore it so it dint scorch't sheets.
Me granny took a cast iron oven shelf to bed wrapped in a sheet.....
We didn't have a fridge - it were a block o' limestone in't pantry...........
They were 'ard times.
AND I kid you not.........
