Bolts/Valve on outide of bedroom chimney breast

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maryroberts wrote: »

Thanks for the replies - very interesting about the gas lights, I had no idea they were still being used in the 1930's!

It was not until the electricity industry was nationalised in the late 1940's that the national grid system was set up. Gas lights and coal fires were in the majority of houses until the electricity supply expanded in the 1950's.

I served an apprenticeship with the gas board starting in 1968 and we still maintained a lot of gas lights then. both domestically and in places like shops and cinemas where they were used as emergency lighting. North sea gas killed most of them off in the mid 1970's and now , they are rare but still manufactured and used, especially in historically important places.