G G Jean
Brummy Wench.
When I was a child almost everyone had an open coal fire. We had two as my aunt Floss lived in the front. We used to have those large guards round them sometimes with moms and aunts smalls drying on them when it was raining. Things came flooding back last night when I was day [night] dreaming while sat in front of our open fire in our front room. The days when a chimney would set alight and the smell of soot would fill the air. One day a house opposite us in Yew Tree roads chimney caught fire and they had to be evacuated because the fire brigade could not get it under control I was Mrs Billingham and she was so worried because her cat had ran under the bed and would not come out. That realy scared me and we make sure our chimney is swept yearly. We are having a log burner installed early November and will make sure the chimney is well clean before the job is don. There is no substitute for an open fire as long as you take the necessary precautions. TTFN. Jean.