 | THE FOUNDING FATHER OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY | |
  | In the early 1800's the owner of an ironmongery store took inspiration from the very first enclosed metal stoves which appeared in North America at the end of the 1700's and custom built his own stove to heat his Halstead based store. Charles Portway's design proved to be so successful that a neighbouring shopkeeper asked him to build a stove to heat his store also. Soon afterwards Portway set up a small foundry manufacturing solid fuel stoves that were so successful they lasted up to the 1980's almost without any change. The beauty behind the success of Portway's stoves was in their efficiency and they burned so slowly that they extracted the maximum amount of heat from the fuel. They were named "Tortoise" stoves and proudly produced with the motto "Slow but sure" displayed on the front. Portway's stoves were used to heat churches and halls as well as homes and 19th Century stoves displaying the iconic "Tortoise" trademark can still be found today, making them one of the oldest, most resilient products in the history of heating. Today, Portway stoves with new intelligent designs make them some of the cleanest, most efficient and most easily controllable stove available and are all British made by BFM Europe in Staffordshire. Here at Stonebridge Fireplaces we are Nottingham's authorised stockist of this prestigious brand displaying many of the models within our showroom. We have the Portway 3 contemporary on live display, keeping us warm and creating a warming glow to our showroom.   |
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