Fireplace 1 - goodbye

Well, it makes a change from cyclamens.

We are having a fire put into our front room. This is the old fire surround, which everyone said would shatter when it was levered off the wall - so we bought a new one. The new one is just cheap, wood, nothing special because the interior fire thing is quite nice (Victorian replica, tiles etc). We chose a more ornate interior on the basis that the existing rather fancy surround would be in pieces - the two together would have been serious overkill.

Today the Fire Making Man came and took this off in one piece, no problem.
Doh.

So now it's in the alley way, cold and abandoned. We will try to sell it for a few quid, and hopefully offset some of the cost of the new one - which requires about 20 feet of very costly gas piping to be laid. But oh! How warm we shall be.