Interesting blog on fracking

[The Other Mike]

So anywhere not sat on coalfield didn't have a power station then...

[harryagain]

Top posters are a pain in the arse. They do it simply because they are too idle to scroll down before they start typing Or they have an ego problem. .It causes confusion and throws everything out of sequence.

[harryagain]

Do you not understand "most"?

Also most heavy industry was congregated about them.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Arfa Daily escribió:

I doubt it very much. He comes across as one of those wankers who, when told something they don't want to hear, sticks their fingers in their ears and goes 'la la la, can't hear you'

[bert]

In message , harryagain writes

As in South Wales

[Steve Firth]

He has already done so. Early on, when I referred to greenwash idiots as greenwash idiots (not in reply or reference to him) he took it as a personal insult and claimed to have killfiled me. When I asked how he was going to do that in Google groups he did the fingers in the ears act. He shows that he's a liar and a hypocrite by responding to my posts.

[Steve Firth]

Oh Christ, it's that whinging old bugger from the Archers.

[The Other Mike]

So the places without heavy industry or a coalfield did without electric light.

[John Williamson]

Until the National Grid was built, yes. Even as recently as the 1970s, a lot of rural areas were without mains electricity, and as another thread which is running in this group at the moment proves, it's still not universal. It was even known for parts of London to be without mains services within living memory. As late as the 1950s, many people used to have to take their radio accumulators to the local bike shop to get them charged.

[docholliday93]

When I bought my first house (in Emsworth, on the south coast) I was told t hat it had been connected to mains electricity in 1948. By the 60's (as far back as I can remember) I don't recall going anywhere which was not connec ted apart from a few really isolated places, though I can quite believe the re may have been a few. Even when electricity is available I have noticed gas lighting persisting f or a long time - in the '70s I used to travel in to London Bridge on trains from Tulse Hill, and a number of the stations they passed through were sti ll lit by gas. In fact the gas lighting may only have stopped when they dem olished the station buildings and replaced them with bus shelters on the pl atforms. :-(