Interesting relics

Now here are a few relics from the past, not including my Mum of course, available to view at the Gloucester folk museum; including my Mum as you can see.
The sight of that old Hoover Constellation set my mind spinning back 4o plus years to many a sad saturday, being made to hurl the thing around the downstairs hall and living room. "It floats on air" said my Mum, and indeed she said the self same thing 45 years on. Its true! People never change. Floats on air my foot, it may look like a flying saucer but it certainly did not behave like one; although the hose was somewhat akin to the lost in space robot - warning, warning, Will Robinson: flailing in all directions. And what about the little gas cooker?
Now you know where Wallace and Gromit got the idea for that cooker thing when he went to the moon to get some cheese. I remember well drying my school cardi over the oven door - that being the only form of heating in the house along with a gas fire in the living room. My Mum said the range was what her Mum used to cook on and black lead on a regular basis; the kettle always just under the boil ready to be dropped on the hotplate for a ready cuppa at any time of the day.
Permanently on, because once off it would take a day or more to get going again. Once more the only form of heating in the flagstone cottage. Happy days? Erm........