FIRE BURNS FOR 200 YEARS
Burning in tho old fashioned hitchen of Chequers Inn, a lonely hostelry on the moorlands of tfce Hatnhleton. Hills, North- Yorkshire," is a peat fire, "which, tradition says, lias been aglow for 200 years.
Until the recent death of tho landlord, William Fnrhaby, there w«r first-hand r , -suraneo that th<j fire had not been cut during liis lifetime and tho lifetime of his father-in-law’, '‘William Flint off; tint iv<, for 120 years. When it is heaped up with peat the fir© smoulders for days Without) attention.
Several years ago some visitors’ discovered. that, th© old chimney had just been repaired. "How was it ‘done if the firo was kept in?” thov asked. "We /mved nip tl>e fir© in o bucket,” repliotl Farnaby.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 13
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