Posted by Adam Quinan on March 04, 2012 at 10:06:24 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Lighting and Horning posted by Tom Napier on March 04, 2012 at 09:31:27:
In the 1930s electricity was supplied by private companies, or sometimes municipal utilities. Either way it would have been a local monopoly.
Presuming the house to have been wired to ther local distribution system, then the incremental cost of electricity would not have been as expensive as the alternatives for light. Heating and cooking may have been more expensive or not supplied by electricty.
Beckfoot being some distance to town would probably have had to wait until the 1950s for a mains electricity supply, though they might have put in their own private generator earlier if money had been available. Even today the cost of running electricty to isolated houses etc. makes it prohibitive unless a whole bunch of people are along the route or the supply is not very distant.