SYND 16-2-72 CANDLES IMPORTED INTO BRITAIN TO COPE WITH POWER CRISIS
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Candles imported into Britain to cope with power crisis
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Going back to this in january 2023 in UK.
Whatayatalkinabeet?
Silly bollocks.
I Remember...I think those days are coming back soon with the way things are at the moment here in UK
You're spot on
Yeah..on the fear porn news today re blackouts. "Nothing new under the sun."
Silly nonsense...U daft ninny.
Even though it was frustrating for our mum with trying to look after our family during the power cuts, we done our best to keep smiling and get on with things. My older brother and myself used to keep us both occupied by making shadows on the back living room wall from the light given from the flames of our then coal fire. The tragic thing I can remember was my school friend Sonia, with whom got badly burnt when her nylon nightie caught fire from the flame of the candle that was lit in her parents house. It was in to the local Coventry Evening Telegraph.
I used to pinch mine at mass and bring them home.
Forgive me farther for I have seen the light 🙏😂
Here from 2022 😁
I remember about then I would have been around 7 yrs old and how it was very frustrated and a nuisance for parents , it was so exciting and lots of fun to run around with torches and have candle's In the house ...
One great thing about living in California in 1972, the only time there was power outages was down to earthquakes or simple faults. Bad weather was not the norm. Sunny, warm and bright was the order of the day. Many seeing these reports on the US networks news programs where shocked at what they thought a modern country of Britain had become.
We were a failed socialist country.
No wonder so many British people emigrated to America. Move to California, where it was warm and sunny all year round
@Pollywog Most kitchens here in LA use gas cookers, so no need for electricity. Also union strikes at our power company was and is unheard of. Power workers at SCE which operates the power supply to Los Angeles and southern California never went on strike, and blacked out the state in the seventies. Even during the oil crisis, power remained on. We did have problems with the manipulating of energy prices which caused blackouts in 2000, that was down to market prices, and not strikes.
@Pollywog Yes, and am I not free to comment, or are the CZcams police at work?
Australia had a huge influx of Brits right through the 70’s 👍🏻
@@thornbird6768 even more in the 18th century.
Unions had a stranglehold on the UK in the 1970s
My teenage years! God above, what a crappy little socialist country we were.
Industry and economy perpetually in crisis. Ugly unions forever on strike.
And all because we lurched violently left in 1945 and voted Labour/Attlee
when the rest of the world was embracing capitalism and mass production.