I reprised a post from a few weeks ago about cookers yesterday… here is the follow-up post:
I shared an advert for a gas cooker yesterday; here is another advert which also features in my 1912 edition of Mrs Beeton. This is a range, and these types of cooker are now really popular, although most these days are electric or gas. Russell’s Patent Lifting Fire Herald Range used coals to provide the heat.
The proud boast by Robert Russell and Sons is that these cookers were used in Queen Alexander’s Technical School at Sandringham; Sandringham is in Norfolk and is the house and estate of the royal family.
I don’t know if Robert Russell, who came from Scotland, was related to William and Alexander Russell who produced the Fletcher Russell stove I wrote about yesterday… but he had an iron foundry too, and in 1881 producing stoves, grates and ranges employing 140 men & boys
Lois Elsden 
I restored a ” herald range” from Russell and sons derby. I have a sales catalogue from 1905, with all their models.
It was stripped down with all the ovens remanufactured . I am probably a bit of an expert on these ranges, the one I rebuilt was fantastic to cook on, I had to leave it on place when I sold the house.
I have some photographs if you are interested .
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