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 Museum "treat" - Bromptonaut
>> One reboot later and I'm in!
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>> Oh joy; I feasted my eyes on "Brown peat from Ireland compressed into a cylindrical
>> shape by hydraulic machinery, presented by J.R. Wigham"

I remember seeing similar peats, and a machine for harvesting them, on the Isle of Lewis about 30 years ago. Presumably not a success as they seem, in so far as peat is still gathered, to have reverted to hand cutting.

The Irish were using it to generate electricity at one time.

The smell is utterly evocative of the history of the places it's burned.

The then Public Trustee around 91/2, who was of Irish heritage, used to burn it in the fireplace in his office.
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