Watching a programme on Channel 5 (UK TV) called 'The Blackouts of 74'.
I remember that clearly.
Outside the front of our house there was a lamp post. It was on a different phase to our house so when the house was blacked out the lamp post was on, and vice versa. We simply left the curtains wide open in the evenings to take advantage of the orange light. We also still had gas lighting at the back of the house over the stairs so Dad reinstated that. Our heating and cooking was gas, and I remember trolleying two one gallon containers to the local petrol station to buy paraffin for lamps, they let kids do that then.
Then there were the long queues for petrol for the car, and the refuse collection strikes leaving rubbish piled up everywhere.
I wonder if the programme is not just a 50th anniversary, but preparation for what we are to expect again.
Alfred Chow - Maker of Things /
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