"Andy" wrote in message
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I am in the UK.

If I wanted electrical power from an ordinary ceiling lampholder like
one of these:

http://www.connectstores.com/P.E.D/images/Cl003.jpg
http://cpc.farnell.com/productimages...rd/7947676.jpg

then it used to be possible to get cyclindrical electrical plug which
bayonetted into the lampholder. A couple of wires could be attached to
that plug and that way it was possible to use power from the light
socket.

Are such things still available?

Or have they been outlawed by some safety regulations?

There's a pub in deepest darkest Kent in a little village called Plaxtol
that still has plenty of these lovely items running things like the lights
to the Bar Billiards table, the "extended" wall lights and other quaint
contraptions.

This is a pub that, in my 30 years of going there and knowing the landlord
*very* well, and being slung out of in a totally incapacitated state, has
not changed one iota since he took over.

By the way, it came 3rd in last years CAMRA awards in Kent.

Bloody good ale, very simple bar food and a straight talking landlord that
will sling you out if he don't like the look of you, especially if you are
wearing only a vest on top!

Long live the Luddites .... LoL!