Jon - more info here:
http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/places/surrey/waverley/godalming/godalming_electricity
<http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/places/surrey/waverley/godalming/godalming_electricity>
br
jez
On 26 February 2010 22:53, Jon Mitchell <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This thread just keeps on calling to me ....
>
> I live in the same Godalming, that you have linked to.
>
> Now, if only I knew where the first electric street light was in Godalming,
> I'd go and take a photo of it.
>
> Other Godalming trivia - the radio operator on the Titanic (Jack Philips)
> was born and raised here. There is a memorial garden to him in the town,
> and the local Wetherspoons pub is named after him.
>
> Oh, and the rock band "Genesis" formed at Charterhouse school - which is in
> Godalming.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jez Cunningham [mailto:jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 February 2010 12:31
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Purchase of new camera case successful
>
> The world's first public electricity supply was provided in late 1881, when
> the streets of the Surrey <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey> town of
> Godalming <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godalming> in the
> UK<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom> were
> lit with electric light...
>
> On 26 February 2010 12:59, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Electrically speaking, our English and European friends don't have much
> > history prior to 1920 either. :-)
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
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