How the UK coped with the 1972 power cuts 🕯️ No TV, homework by candlelight and Heinz ravioli out of the tin ⤵️
Mr James’s dentist was rushing to see as many patients as possible before the electricity went off. In his haste, he didn’t wait long enough for the anaesthetic to kick in before beginning the treatment.
But the very existence of a plan speaks to mounting concern over the current energy crisis, sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine and Britain’s heavy reliance on gas-fired power plants, which generate more than 40 per cent of the country’s electricity. Gary James’s siblings and mother just as a power cut was about to happen. ‘The lamp is from my father’s BT van. I took the photo myself’
She was 12 in 1972 and living in Chacombe, a small village outside Banbury, Oxfordshire, with no gas supply. The family had an electric cooker.
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