UK’s 80-Year-Old Fridge Takes Away All The Spotlight

A vintage fridge has now been in talks for quite a while. And certainly, that’s because it had managed to serve a couple from the past 80 years since the day it was made. The special 1930’s Electrolux fridge was initially owned by a family in the year 1949 and was seemingly an ‘heirloom’, passed down by generations. It was 2ft wide and 3ft tall, as classified by its owner, and had been in its best working condition ever since. Owing to this, it clearly deserved a long service medal.

One of its owners, Robert, 81, who is a retired railway worker mentioned the fridge’s working efficiency and abilities. The couple used to use the fridge on the occasion of Christmas when some extra space had to be made for the desserts, or for storing apples in summer. Well, according to them the fridge had always been in its best behavior and definitely, there was no doubt in that. But the question here was that how come it became so popular and recognized?

A while ago, the couple was facing some issues with the working of their modern fridge. So, to get the replacement part done for the fridge-freezer, the local fridge salesman, Jonathan Kerry was asked for his services. And to his surprise, the 80 years old fridge was still functioning and active. The fridge had been passed on to Robert and his wife by her parents in 1949. Since then, it had been in such good hands, that it managed to serve for so long.

During the 1900s, owning a fridge was a big deal. So unusual that if somebody owned a fridge, they used to be referred in their neighborhood as people with the fridge. Aforementioned, Robert and his wife had planned to pass on that fridge to their anticipated generations. Well, the strapping machine is apparently now being used by a couple in their 70’s from Stone-house, Glos, who choose to remain anonymous. Other people were utterly amazed on knowing about the machine of still being in use till date, and not being disposed of.

Seemed like the anonymous couple must have dethroned Prince Charles in being Britain’s oldest working fridge owner with the fridge being more than 15 years old. And surely the couple must have taken good care of that fridge and even the following generations for that matter, that it managed to work for almost good 80 years. Well in the end all that can be said is that people can be attached to possessions as they can also be an important part of their lives too rather than turning up their noses at materialism because it isn’t all bad.

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