Wood Burners in the UK

There’s a certain image people have in their head of a proper British home. A log burner going, a neat stack of wood to one side, maybe a dog asleep in front of it. It feels like Rupert Lowe‘s front room.

It also feels traditional, and it is, just not in the way most people think.

Go back a few decades and open fires were not a lifestyle choice like now; they were how people heated their homes. Terraced houses, older semis, council housing, most of them had a working fireplace, and it got used because it had to.… Click here to continue reading this article