Tag: Electric fire

• Sunday 18 November 1973

  Could not have the electric fire at DMC trouble with the workers. They had our Paul Warmer & others lent by members. Ethel went twice to chapel. Notes DMC refers to Drayton Methodist Church, see Chapter 107. The “trouble with workers” refers to industrial action in the electricity sector, see Chapter 112. The Paul Warma…

  November 18, 2023

• Saturday 3 November 1973

  Did jobs in my cabin for Mr Kemp and one for Barbara fitted a element in her electric fire. Weather very mild. E& I worked in the garden. Notes Grandad had a purpose-built cabin which he used for woodworking and other practical tasks, see Chapter 85. I am not entirely sure who Mr Kemp was…

  November 3, 2023

• Saturday 13 October 1973

  Last night (Friday) Ethel was not too well, she felt sick & went to the bathroom to vomit, in doing so she lost her bottom teeth we searched for them but were unlucky. In the afternoon today she went to Dereham with David Johnson & family. Mrs Davis’s electric fire went wonky, today I went…

  October 13, 2023