Life without electric

[Highlander]

[BeardyMan]

[Highlander]

[BeardyMan]

[Highlander]

[BeardyMan]

[Kenneth Eames]

Highlander, Your post reminded me of how my extended family lived. One of my uncles lived in a one room shack. Very few possessions but a huge Grandfather clock in one corner. No electric. An aunt of mine we used to visit had hurricane lamps for lighting and a stove, very little apart from that. We had a Larbert range in the kitchen and electricity! My father was in the Navy but his brothers were all shepherds. If I had to go back in time and had to live like that, it would be hard but I am sure I could do it. Nil Desperandum. Kenneth Eames.

[Highlander]

I should have mentioned our Oil lamps,.. we had some huge ones, a real fire hazzard, ...Oh, and our Grandfather clock,.. I hoped I would never remember that again... I could hear it from the landing where I slept,.. I hated every tick of that thing,...

[Straight Shooter]

My job on a sat morn was to carry 2 acumalators" batteries" for the wireless down the mountain to the mill ( they used to charge them up via a water wheel) drop 2 in and take 2 back up the mountain back to the small holding 4 miles round trip .....then muck out the hens ...ducks.........gran loved the archers...got arms like an gorilla i wonder why?

[bigpaul]

wife was brought up in a house with no mains electric, no running water and not on main drains, cooking on a wood stove, water HAND pumped from a well, oil lamps for lighting, drainage was a "soak away", then when she started work she went into farming, no farms were on the national grid, the most they had was a generator. i would have LOVED to live like that and i still do!