The fire place in the living room at the Lock House
The fire-place in the living room at the Lock House.
Margaret Langton
This picture shows the fire place in the living room. Not satisfied with this coal fire, a calor-gas heater has been added to provide extra heating. As the years went by, obtaining an adequate supply of coal must have become more difficult and expensive, so the gas heater would have been a good alternative.
Creator
Margaret Langton Place
Lock House, Stenwith, Lincolnshire Contributor
Janet and Brian Dammes Copyright
Jointly held by Margaret Langton and the Bottesford Local Heritage Project Reference number
BOT/196/024 Storage location
Digital records held by Bottesford Community Heritage Project 
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One of Neil’s later photos indicates that this was a bedroom rather than the living room.
Whoops – there is clearly some confusion here! The truth is that I am not sure which room is depicted here and in the later photo Bill refers to, whether it is the living room or the bedroom. On the one hand, it looks more like a living room fireplace than a bedroom. The floor is parque-tiled, which also implies a downstairs ‘high status’ room. In addition, I would expect a bedroom fireplace to be smaller, like the ones in the terraced cottage I used to live in at Sutton Bonington. So on reflection I think this fireplace was downstairs, in the living room. I listed it later as in one of the bedrooms because I took the later picture immediately after taking pictures in the bedroom and thought this was probably also taken in the bedroom. Frustratingly, there are no pictures of the bedroom fireplaces that would completely resolve the question. Neil
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