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Electricity in Rural England

Feb 17, 2013 19:19

Hey all. I'm tentatively plotting a story that takes place in a village in England's West Country. Precise location in the West Country doesn't really matter at this point, as I'm hoping to keep it as vague as possible, but I am trying to find out when electricity started getting introduced across the region. One of my principal characters is going ( Read more... )

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mslefay February 18 2013, 22:03:12 UTC

I'm pretty sure you'll find the answer here http://www.nationalgrid75.com/timeline

I googled ' electricity introduced rural britain' and got some info that points to a parliamentary question on this topic in about 1946.

rhiannon_s February 18 2013, 22:08:45 UTC

Yeah, that is more about the patching together local grids into the national one. The trouble I have is that the time period I was looking at mostly pre-dates the national grid. Thank you though.

xolo February 19 2013, 00:09:27 UTC

There's actually going to be a symposium on "The electrification of rural England, 1890-1970" on Sat, March 9th at Leeds Trinity College. http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/6939. It's apparently open to the public, if you're nearby. If you're not, the listed contact for the event is Prof Karen Sayer, k.sayer@leedstrinity.ac.uk. As she's a professor, I'm sure you could get her to share some knowledge with you.