"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:30:50 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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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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> AFAIK, they don't come that way in Victorians out here in the West
> (unless you like house fires). They removed or capped off the gas
> plumbing and wired the gas light fixtures for electricity.

Pretty much the way I knew it. When we eventually got electricity, they
only installed it in downstairs. Upstairs we still had gas lighting.

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