In 1932, this house was probably still lit by gas. It would be interesting to know when electricity first arrived, but whilst there are still remnants of the gas fittings, apart from a length of VIR and a short length of galvanised conduit, I have never found anything electrical which predates the early eighties.
Those inter-war council houses were well built - much better than the post-war ones.
Interesting article with some clever graphics! What I find rather shocking is how small modern dwellings have become. IIRC, a local development allows 25 m2 per person.
Rose Murphy was thrilled when she first had electric light in her new council home. (Watch the BBC video documentary). The 1961 Parker Morris report specified the minimum number of electrical sockets for domestic appliances.
A BBC council housing documentary.....watch out for the old electrical accessories and wiring systems.
In the late 1950s/early 60's we had a mixture of 13 amp and 5 amp three pin sockets in our farm house. Local Council Houses (Hawarden Rural District Council) that I visited had Wylex plugs and sockets. https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Wylex1.html
Back at the farmhouse, not sure of the original supply, but can remember the overheads being changed for an insulated Live and bare Neutral. The farm buildings were also supplied overhead, 3-phase, Neutral and Earth I think. (not 100% sure about there being an earth, will have to do a drive by, I last lived there in 1973) Neither the house nor the buildings where besides corn grinding and milking machine vacuum pump, there were 20 odd cow stalls, had either a ELCB or RCCB/RCD. The house earth being a bare 7/0.029 to a water pipe.
For a number of years I completed house rewires via Local Authority Grant Aided Scheme.
The min to make a house inhabitable for sockets was one twin per room and two twins per kitchen on the council spec.
Lighting was often all one way switching except the stairway which was two way.
Cooker circuit and immersion circuit.
They expected the houseowner to make a contribution on top of the grant for this minimum say £100 or so.
They had a hope/expectation that the houseowner would pay the extra for the electrician to add extra sockets at the same time but around here it very rarely happend.
