Hi everyone,

I love having a fireplace with mantlepiece and flame effect fire especially at this time of year,so reminds me of when I was a kid, toasting crumpets on the fire with the toasting fork. Sounds like something Dickensian doesn’t it, I was brought up in a very small Victorian terraced house with coal fires. Strange how, with just the flame effect switched on it makes you feel warmer even though it’s not emitting any heat.

 I remember the coalman had to bring the coal sacks in through the front door one at a time, down the narrow hallway, through the living room. down three steps to the tiny kitchen, out the back door, down the garden and deposit the coal in an old WW2 corrugated metal Anderson shelter at the end of the garden and then repeat the exercise. 🙂  A sobering reminder not to take one’s modern-day creature comforts for granted.

Kind regards

Leigh