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Combustion

Today, just as the heating system in the sky began its inevitable Bank Holiday fade, I came across a photograph I took last May, in a local church. It shows the top of a Portway Patent Tortoise Slow Combustion Stove. These were designed and built by Charles Portway in the 1830s. By 1900 he had [...]

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