"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
...

Do you remember the very old-fashioned close-jointed "tin-whistle"
conduit? This was about the same gauge stuff as capping, but just
rolled round into a pipe.
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Early c20, I would think.

And used in my house in the mid fifties... Probably another in the list
of "Last House in England to have..."

2A sockets
Rubber insulated cables
Bedroom fireplaces
Ground floor with no dpm
9" walls
Steel window frames
Paddy's mortar

and so on.


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Kevin Poole
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