Tim Downie wrote:
John Stumbles wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:38:11 +0100, John wrote:

http://www.thehewitts.eu/gas.html

Not sure what the 4th one was showing us :-)

I think it's highlighting that it's not just a rusty bucket, but that
the hole is man-made (you can see mutiple drill holes round the
periphery).
The big question, given that it seems to have been deliberate, is
*why*. Just to bypass a chimney blocked with an old bucket? One
would have though it would be easier to remove the bucket that drill
through it.

Well I'm sort of thinking along the lines of 'did CORGI or a similar body
exist more than 40 years ago?'

I seem to sort of remember the original gas fires being fitted when I was
about 5 (I'm now 50) but at that time, would it necessarily have been a
specifically trained gas person or could any plumber (or even just any old
local handyman) have done the job?

To my untrained eye it seems that the wooden shelf thingy has been put there
to stop birds, soot or anything else from dropping down the chimney.
Specifically cutting a hole in the bucket is obviously to let something out,
and as it was found up a chimney it's not a great leap to make, to think
that it may have been to let flue gases out. My mam and dad are both dead
now (which is why we now own the house and rent it out) so I can't ask them,
but it seems quite plausible - to me anyway )

John