ELECTRICITY

It is perhaps bizarre that in the middle of Spalding down the road from the house I was raised in, in Stonegate was a house that relied entirely on gas for it had no electricity until the 21st century. In it lived Edna Basam and her elderly mother when I was young and they had gas lamps on the walls for lighting. I remember asking them what they were as I hadn’t seen gaslight before and Edna lit…