"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:41:12 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>"S Viemeister" > wrote in message
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>>> On 8/10/2013 4:51 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> When I was a kid our cottage was very late getting electricity. We had
>>>> all gas and mantles for the lights. We had a very elaborate thing for
>>>> our sitting room, brass with three tiny mantles and long fancy chains
>>>> on
>>>> each sides The bedrooms just had standard lamps.
>>>>
>>> I used to live in a house where some of the older light fittings were
>>> dual
>>> gas and electric - gas mantle on top, light bulb on the bottom.
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>>Oohh posh <g>Never heard of those)
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> Most older city homes are plumbed for gas lighting... electric
> lighting is relatively new... as electric lighting became popular
> (only about 100 years ago) the piping was cut, capped, and plastered
> over... the gas piping is still inside the walls. The house I grew up
> in was built in 1911, it originally had all gas lighting, so did all
> the the houses around... some left the gaslight fixtures because they
> are so decorative, some were electrified. We electrified those in our
> entryway and center hallways on both floors.

Yes I hadn't heard of both types of working lighting in a single unit.

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