Re: Beckfoot Lighting


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Posted by Adam Quinan on March 01, 2012 at 02:58:55 user Adam.

In Reply to: Beckfoot Lighting posted by Peter Hyland on March 01, 2012 at 00:50:27:

Winter Holiday when its always "dark at tea-time" (4 - 4.30 pm) should illuminate this discussion.

We know they used oil lamps in the Observatory, igloo, the Fram and the North Pole so they were used to them.
Rural electrification started in the UK in the 1930s but was interrupted by the war and so in outlying areas, people either used oild lanterns, or in bigger households generated their own electricity from petrol generators or possibly a small hydroelectric source. if they had a suitable stream, the same one used for the hydraulic ram for the water supply? This power could have been stored in a battery bank to operate DC appliances.

Telephones were supplied with electricity from the exchange so the presence of one does not mean that there was power at the house.


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