[Neil]

Originally Posted by Less

These days I am older folk, back in the 70's when strikes stopped electric, we either had gas or open fires to keep us warm, now we have central heating, that won't work without electrickery, health and safety devices that won't allow folk to stay warm even if left in the dark.
Because now we don't burn coal, even worse, now we can't burn gas without a fail safe that ensures electric controls it. So now no electric let your toes go cold.

Many still have gas fires that don't need electrikery to work, we have 2. The sheltered housing on Wellington Court area of Accrington are to have gas installed soon. They only had electric central heating installed a few years ago but Hyndburn Homes must have realised the error of there was because it's so expensive to run. They won't be installing fires though so the whole area will still go cold in a power cut.