This is an old fashioned fireplace. It is to be found in a house at the Black Country Museum,near Dudley. You can see the edge of an old fashioned rug made out of cut up old clothes.The strips'hooked' through a piece of hessian sack material using a modified wooden clothes peg. They were known as 'clipping' or 'hookey' rugs. I remember my gran making them when I was small. This fireplace is much older and smaller than the one my gran had. Gran's even had an oven and she baked lovely bread and a delicious meat and potato pie in it. Also it was great making toast using a toasting fork in front of the fire's bars when the fire burned down to red embers. Toast made by a toaster doesn't taste anywhere near as good.