Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 15, 2003 at 14:20:59 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: BECKFOOT layout - arrangements for eating posted by Prue Eckett on April 15, 2003 at 08:53:14:
The absence of mains electricity doesn't mean the absence of running water. We know from PM that the fell rises steeply immediately on the far side of the road, and that there was water up there - the beck by the Dogs Home if no other. My parents' ex-farmhouse, Crag in Ennerdale collected its water from about 500 feet up the fell - an old bath from which a pipe passed it through a filter and thence down to enter the house and lead to the attic header tank. From here it was distributed just as though it had come through the mains. I don't see why Beckfoot wouldn't have had a similar arrangement.
Elecricity on isolated properties didn't come in most cases until after the War - unless they ran to a hydro plant. It is a bit surprising that Captain Flint hadn't put one of these in.