Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a domestic fire.

1884		Sporting Times 29 Nov. 1/1: He [...] dragged me down the apples and pears by my Barnet Fair, and put me on the Hannah Maria.
1892		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘The Rhyme of the Rusher’ in Sporting Times 29 Oct. n.p.: And my round the houses I tried to dry / By the Anna Maria’s heat.
1910		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 3 Aug. 4/1: He will probably tell the landlady that she need not light the 'Annie Maria' (fire) as it is getting much 'Daisy Dormer'.
1937		J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 33: ‘Never mind, I’ll get a light from the old Anna Maria.’ He got up, went over to the fire, picked up a glowing coal with a pair of tongs, lit his cigarette.
1938		(con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: But a pair of his round the houses hung / At the Anna Maria to air.
1946		St. Vincent Troubridge ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: i desire. A fire. (English, 1900.) Anna Maria is ten times as usual. The best known poem in rhyming slang begins: As I sat in front of the Anna Maria, / Warming me plates of meat, / There came a knock at the Rory O’More / That made me old raspberry beat.
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl. 32/1: Anna Maria Fire. A 19C. term still very popular.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.