We are heading towards the Asiatic quarters and the chimney in front!
Dating back more than a century, Nurses on night shift report ghostly china men with long ponytails wandering through wards and across verandas.
They cooked their own food in the building with the big chimney and ate in the covered outdoor area. That pot experienced more than Asian delights brewing!
Odd how the length of the ovens scope the length of a body ... 
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I think the story about those ovens may have been toned down a bit ... PS: This is this blog's 100th post!
Happy 100th Post!!!
Hmmm, suspicious oven indeed...brings to mind a jingle from a commerical
"....easy off makes oven cleaning easier..." (!!)
(possibly only the Yanks will remember the tune!)
Thanks Lavender :)
Hmmm, no don't recognise the tune and can only think of Mr Sheen's song who didn't clean ovens BUT an oven like this would make 'cleaning' a lot easier! Hhehheeee. Reminds me of an old combustion stove - best stove I ever cooked with! Wonder where the fuel (trees?) came from in these parts ...
Did you stuff everything up the chimney and blow it all into space?
If you mean yolks, albumins and membranes, I might try that BoiledEggInADeckchair!
Happy 100th Anon.
I knew it! There were Chinese then. They're just everywhere!
What are these really? Ovens or incinerators?
Thank you Ces :)
Early Anglo-Celtic society separating Asians as a particular class, also included separate cooking areas. I wouldn't be surprised if the dead were also separated Ces! We had some mighty wars during the gold-rush with Chinese in Australia ...
Indeed, I would not be surprised as I have seen plantation graveyards here where the masters were separated from the slaves not just geographically but also by the size and type of tomb markers.
Even today there seems to be a 'keeping up with the Jones's' approach by some with headstones and crypts when they can afford it! It does appear to be a cultural thing but families and 'slaves' have changed too.
Chinese Markets were very popular for fruit and vegetables when I was very small ... they no longer exist except within tight 'separate' communities.
I could go on ... there is REVENGE of the Ponytailed Men here ...woooo ....
Happy 100th... :o)
Your pics reminds me of something... WWII.... I feel very uncomfortable looking at all those ovens....
Thank you MerlinPrincesse :)
There were a lot of soldiers here during WWII with venereal diseases, MerlinPrincesse. Nothing to do with the ovens here ...
I like to think they were roasting french fries in that oven, and there really is nobody around to dispute that.
Chicken feet maybe Hardwax, but french fries might be stretching the imagination! There is a smallbody of a boy on the stairs Hardwax! He might have something to dispute!!!
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