Tiny stove to go into fireplace – ideas?

As a kid I remember having a coal (or charcoal?!) small black square fire thing in the fireplace. It kicked out a huge amount of heat.

Is there anything cost effective and similar (as wood burning stoves etc all seem pricey and pricey to install)?

Do you mean like one of the caravan sized pot bellied stoves?

eg:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Square-micro-burner-gypsy-caravan-camper-van-gas-bottle-woodburner-boat-stove-/191336054454

or

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Large-square-micro-burner-gypsy-caravan-gas-bottle-woodburner-boat-stove-/191336040357

You talking about inset stoves?

If so, Esse ones are good but still pricey pricey to buy. I installed my own – I’m probably going to hetas hell.

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What about this
https://www.kimberlyepawoodstoves.com/%5B/url%5D

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We have an Arrow 4.5kw multi fuel stove set into our fireplace. So much more heat than the open fire it replaced. We did have a chminey liner already installed.

Like this:
UK stoves link

Parkray were the ones most people had in the olden days.

This sort of thing;

Parkray looks like it. Yes an inset stove. Are they cheaper? The cast iron bigger things look low quality. Is this wrong to say this? I saw a few on machine mart and thought they looked low-rent.

Contura i4 is a good inset stove + Town and Country Runswick.

Machine mart ones are a bit low rent but do the job of being a box with fire in well enough 🙂

In traditional STW fashion, Stovax stockton milner inset with multi-fuel kit.
Not as extortionate as some stoves but still not cheap.

It might have been a coke stove I rembers my mothers aunt having one and it did chuck out a lot of heat

Thats it- a coke stove. Tiny and bloody hot!