That is correct, My old grans house had one and even when I was a kid in
Wandsworth the flat we had had one and we used to bath in a tin bath filled
from jugs from the copper.
It was great fun watching my parents trying to lift the tin bath to the
drain to tip the water away as well.
Brian

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On Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:45:10 -0000
"Commander Kinsey" wrote:

I came across a shed today, 8x6m, brick built, with a slate roof, and
a chimney! Not a boiler or wood burning stove type thing, but a
traditional brick chimney. Any idea as to why someone would do
that? It was seperate from the house, by a distance of about 8m.

That was where they heated the water in a big tub called a copper to do
the laundry. As recently as the 1920s, apparently, as a house I lived in
had one, and my mum remembered using one. When washing machines and
domestic hot water arrived the coppers were removed but the chimneys
remained.