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Multiple Ring Spurs.

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When was it common to run a ring final in a loft of say a bungalow, and have multiple spurs running down to sockets in rooms below? Why did this come about? Was it a wartime materials' saving provision? I am working in an old building wired in the early to mid 60s and no sockets seem to be on a ring, just spurs, but there are rings at the fuse box. The collection of a multitude of junction boxes is something to behold. It is junction box city, now all hidden under layers of glass fibre insulation. A real pig.


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    ebee:

    Might have been a Manchester saying perhaps "Lazy Betty" . Even though they are actually still in Lancashire like us top uns they do have the odd strange saying "down the back ginnel" I think that means a back street but particularly narrow compared to a normal back street.


    Could be a "ten-foot" i.e. the access road between the backs of properties, which is usually 10 feet wide; but I understand it to be a passageway between two buildings - hence the phrase, "stuck like a pig in a ginnel". On the other side of the Pennines, it might be known as a "snicket".


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    ebee:

    Might have been a Manchester saying perhaps "Lazy Betty" . Even though they are actually still in Lancashire like us top uns they do have the odd strange saying "down the back ginnel" I think that means a back street but particularly narrow compared to a normal back street.


    Could be a "ten-foot" i.e. the access road between the backs of properties, which is usually 10 feet wide; but I understand it to be a passageway between two buildings - hence the phrase, "stuck like a pig in a ginnel". On the other side of the Pennines, it might be known as a "snicket".


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