FIRES WHICH NEVER GO OUT.
■*■ There are domestic Area burning 1n Yorkshire, aooording to the Penny Magazine, to-day whiob have never been out for hundreds of years. At the old-fashioned farmhouses in the dales of Yorkshire peat is still burnt. The fuel in obtained from the moors, and stacks of it are kept by the farmers in their stack garths. The country round about is noted for its "girdle cakes," which are made from dough baked in quaint pans suspended oyer the peat fires. These fires are kept glowing rrom generation to generation, and the son warms himself at the fire which warmed his sire and hie grandeire and his grandsire's sire. There Ja a fire at Oastleton, in the Whitby district, which has been burning for over 200 years. The reoord, probably, is held by a farmhouse at Osmotherley, in the same ' district. This fire has been- burnldg for 500 years, anr? there are recordß to show that H has not been oat for three centuries.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 825, 27 September 1906, Page 7
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167FIRES WHICH NEVER GO OUT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 825, 27 September 1906, Page 7
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