Some years ago my wife cussed me for going to do a call out at ten o’clock at night for lights not working when we were going on holiday the next morning and I was still packing my case.

I explained to her I wanted to go to see the house, as it was quite exceptional.

There was an old lady living in a huge house with a grand entrance gate and curved driveway leading up to the main entrance of the Victorian house with double doors in a circular tower with a turret on top of it. The main hall is panelled in oak with a Harry Potter staircase also in oak.

The elderly lady said there was three fuse boards, on in the cellar which her children had turned into a full blown night club, one in the kitchen and one upstairs in the billiards room.

Having checked the first two we headed up to the billiards room, she had to remove the chain across the doorway to remind her not to go in whilst the alarms were set, by then it was half ten at night and I’m looking up at a fuse board a full fourteen feet off the floor installed by the Midlands Electricity Board Back when they did electrical contracting work.

The lady informed me that there was a pair of wooden steps in a store room off the billiards room kept especially for accessing the fuse board, so there I was at half ten at night on top of a old pair of wooden steps pulling fuses in a board fourteen feet off the floor thinking why? Why on earth would anyone ever think it was acceptable to install a fuse board fourteen feet off the floor?

Were the steps marked M.E.B?

Z.

Were the steps marked M.E.B?

Z.