AGA_Stories
 

Owner: Julian and Marie-Therese Gibson-Watt
Model: Cream 4-oven
Vintage: c1930s
Location: Wales
Snapshot: The AGA at Julian and Marie-Therese’s home, Doldowlod Hall in Powys, is certainly one of the earliest models. In the 1930s, Julian’s grandmother wrote to Bell’s Heat Appliances praising the very same AGA. The letter, reprinted in AGA: The Story of a Kitchen Classic (Tim James 2002) reads: ‘I should like to tell you that I find the AGA does all that you claim for it and a good deal more. This week we have in the house 12 in the dining room, 9 servants, 3 in nursery, and besides all this, involving separate meals, 130 people, the supper for which was entirely done at home.’ The AGA is still going strong.
Finest Hour: Keeping generation after generation of a family fed for almost eight decades.