"I had water from the well in the garden, an outside
ash pit toilet and an iron kitchen range."
The owner had shoveled hot ash through the ash door, down into the
ash pit. Investigation of the
ash pit later revealed there was no ash dump below, but merely the concrete block used to support the fireplace.
Conversely, my mother's father was an ostler at a Mountain
Ash pit and her four brothers all began working as teenagers in the local mines.
He sets a small 'camp fire' of oak in the firebox grate pit, just outside the
ash pit opening.
Rather than the image of a mythic land blossoming in a Golden Age that had long accompanied him, Roskies found himself amidst the ruins of Crematorium IV alongside an
ash pit pond.
Additionally my husband spends several hours every couple of weeks cleaning the corn we get from the local grain elevator, otherwise we would have an overflowing
ash pit!
"The pointed end was used to lift the hot lid off the top for filling and also the
ash pit cover," he writes.
It will also cap the fly
ash pit, and reroute Airport Brook to avoid future erosion.
They had also claimed that liquids draining from the process at Wrexham ran into an
ash pit when in fact there was a waste stream under the floor.
There is a porch and entrance hall with wood block floor and a good dining room with a wide inglenook in stone, still with its old bread oven and
ash pit beneath.