The open fireplace, the approved coal saver, helps to keep down my electricity account on space heating for a second or third room.
Does he not know of the patent appliance whereby an open fireplace does cut down coal consumption?
The attractive thing is a bright, open fireplace.
But we are not going to get the consent of the housewives of this country to the abolition of the open fireplace.
It is the old-fashioned open fireplace to which we are taking exception.
I want all housewives to have a bright, open fireplace and to make their contribution to putting the country on its feet by the export of coal.
The worst offender is the old-fashioned type of open fireplace, which is probably still the main form of space heating in more than half of our 15 million households.
To suggest that it is necessary, in order to ventilate a bedroom, to have an open fireplace shows a type of mind which is far behind the times.
