> Questions: > * How expensive would a trip to a bath house have been, relative to pay > for > an iron worker might you imagine? > * When might running water/indoor facilities common in the Moxley, > Wednesbury, Dudley, Bilston area? Interesting general link on wages is on www.wirksworth.org.uk/A04VALUE.htm gives guide to wages and money. Not the area, but as a general guide to water supply, 1866 a water works was built and mains water was installed in Swindon and the GWR railway workshops. Also when the railway works and railway cottages were built 1842 they included sewerage system. My grans house built around 1900 had mains water, an outside toilet on mains sewer, and may have had electric light from the start, no sign of old gas lighting. Electric power came in around 1870, though we still had gas street lights in the 1960's, a mate in Stafford lived with his gran, and they had no electric in the late 1960's, so relied on gas lighting.. Farms, and remote houses tended to have petrol generator sets, a number we stayed at on holiday in the 50's all had generators. Brian