How old is this?

In my old house built and wired in around 1950 the main earth was a thin bare wire that was run from the DB to a copper pipe in the downstairs Khazi  it was soldered to the pipe and certainly worked well enough to prevent any nasty tingles was replaced with a much thicker long length of green and yellow which was attached to the cold water intake  pipe just the other side of a wall from the original point. A few years later the SEB converted the whole estate to PME  every house but one had the water pipe earth in place so it really was multiple earth. The first house I lived at that I can remember had a 3 pin socket in the kitchen we used for the wash machine if we used the heater on the machine it would give a slight tingle so I'm guessing there was no earth even tho it was a3 pin 15 amp socket. I think the electrics were put in by a bloke from the pub the owner knew

In my old house built and wired in around 1950 the main earth was a thin bare wire that was run from the DB to a copper pipe in the downstairs Khazi  it was soldered to the pipe and certainly worked well enough to prevent any nasty tingles was replaced with a much thicker long length of green and yellow which was attached to the cold water intake  pipe just the other side of a wall from the original point. A few years later the SEB converted the whole estate to PME  every house but one had the water pipe earth in place so it really was multiple earth. The first house I lived at that I can remember had a 3 pin socket in the kitchen we used for the wash machine if we used the heater on the machine it would give a slight tingle so I'm guessing there was no earth even tho it was a3 pin 15 amp socket. I think the electrics were put in by a bloke from the pub the owner knew

It's a wonder that we all survived.

Kelly Marie Angel said:

The first house I lived at that I can remember had a 3 pin socket in the kitchen we used for the wash machine if we used the heater on the machine it would give a slight tingle so I'm guessing there was no earth even tho it was a3 pin 15 amp socket.

I thought that you were going to say that if you used the heater on the machine, you could not use anything else. :-)

Youngsters who rely upon automatic washing machines don't know how fortunate they are.

First you had to fill it. Heat the water. Tangle up all the clothes. Empty the water. Spin (if you were posh).

When I was wee, Grandma still had a mangle in her wash-house in the back yard. Remarkably, the wash-house still appears on Google along with the adjoining privy and coal hole.