"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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We didn't get electricity in the village until I was nearly 5 years old,
and 'simple' electricity was only pure magic.

As late as the mid 1960s on a family holiday I was staying in what was
little more than a croft, the home of a relative's mother-in-law. Water
was got from a spring on the hillside and the old lady would not have
electricity installed lest it leaked out of the sockets during the night and
killed them all.

Lighting by oil lamps, washing by a jug and bowl in the bedroom, hams curing
over the front of the fire.