History

Meet the Waghorn Family at White Chapel Fireplaces

Family Run Business Heritage  – Trading 26 years!
White Chapel Fireplaces is a family run business with a co owner that is creative as well as inventive and is synonymous with the Fireplace Industry. Fred Waghorn is an unsung hero who is a born inventor and designer whose name has become tantamount with some of the industries most ground breaking patents over the last four decades.

White Chapel Fireplaces has functioned as a family business consisting of eight associated members since 1987, however the Waghorn family have traded locally since 1867 and before. 

The early days of White Chapel Fireplaces saw husband and wife Fred and Margaret Waghorn establish this unique showroom into National recognition located along the A21 between London and Hastings which slices through some beautiful parts of Kent and Sussex. As you draw closer to the coast near Battle – scene of 1066 battle of Hastings. It is hard to ignore one of the most unusual heating equipment outlets in the country. 

Waghorns have been responsible for patented manufacturing; Fireplaces/ Mantels, Gas Fires, Electric Fires, Multi Fuel Fires,Woodburning Stoves as well as Ceramic Logs for Film / Television Sets and Award Winning Aromatherapy Products.

BREAKING NEWS: Newest invention of Fred Waghorn’s is the new Stoven, a Multi-purpose fireplace with a cooking device! 

Mr Fred Waghorn is the “Brain behind the Fire and Fireplace Industries most inspired inventions since 1976”, you are in expert hands with this family.

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