" Oh yes I can remember the misery of it all, we couldn't go to the local discos and mum couldn't watch coronation street ... some misery that!!! You see I remember that it was a rolling black out designed to ensure that people could still work, so the bulk of the cuts was in the early evening."
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In Liverpool as the rest of the country power cuts where staggered to different times during the day. I remember power going off in the office I worked in as a junior. No light, electric typewriters would not work and we all had to sit and do collating just for something to do. I also remember my Father who was a shop steward in Tate & Lyles when all the machinery closed down and the workers coming home. My Mother's office was the same. So the power cuts WHERE at all different timesand not in the evenings. Yes, it was miserable to come home in the evening and watch the clock until the power went off at the appointed time. It was also a worry for us that my Grandmother was living alone and did not understand why she had no power as the television was her entertainment every evening. We set her up with battery lamps etc, as we where scared she would trip over something and hurt herself.
