there was a wooden top on our boiler and the washing would lift it up letting out the steam, I remember my little cousin lifting the lid and putting next doors cat into the boiler before anyone could stop him, the cat gave out a loud squeal and ran off up the side of the hill, it was the last time we saw it, I remember taking the glass batteries to be recharged, they gave you a replacement for a tanner, and listening to Dan Dare on radio Luxembourg. ah nostalgia