Could this be Britain's oldest fridge?

Sheppey businessman Brian Spoor has had the Frigidaire refrigerator for 20 years.

He originally believed it was released in 1946, but says after removing its back plate he discovered it could be a lot older.

The 61-year-old recalls the fridge, which was painted in its original colours of black and red, came with a job lot of other equipment.

Other than replacing the thermostat and re-painting the appliance white, the fridge has continued to "chug away" without mishap and is now sitting outside Brian's office in Beach Street where it's used for storing milk and cold drinks.

Brian's claim to fridge fame followed a national newspaper article in which Buckinghamshire man Edmund Garrod boasted his 1954 General Electric Company DE30 was the oldest working fridge in Britain.

But no sooner had Brian phoned to say he had an older fridge, than Bournemouth man Darryl Britten revealed he owned a 1937 Moffat refrigerator.

Brian decided to dig deeper and found a mark behind the device's back plate with the date May 16, 1938.

And when he checked the fridge's reference number, he claims to have discovered it was actually made in 1936.

Brian has no intention of getting rid of his pride and joy - even though it could potentially be sold for several thousand pounds.

He even plans to return it to its former glory, painting it in its original colours, putting in a new seal and cleaning its brass plate.

"I'd never consider getting rid of it," he said. "It probably costs twice as much to run as a modern equivalent but I don't want to part with it - it's part of my scenery."

The fridge was once part of a large collection of 1940s equipment and furniture which Brian built up over the years with the hope of renting them out as props.

"But the collection became too big and I never got anyone interested, so I got rid of it all, except the fridge," he said.

He recently spent two days doing up a 45-year-old scrapped Creda Concept electric cooker, paying £75 for new elements and selling it for £135.

"Anything old I am interested in," he said. "Old things were built 100 times better than they are today."

Have you got an older fridge? Or does your kettle date back to the dark ages? Have you got a Hoover that's seen a world war? Send in pictures of your old device tokentonlinenews@thekmgroup.co.uk