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Is that a socket on the wall?


In the very first episode of the series, when we see the room of the lady friend of Sidney, right there above her bed there's something in the wall that seems a socket to me. Was there supposed to be electricity in a house in London at that time, or is it a completely different think?

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It seems that electric light first came to London about 1883 (http://www.localhistories.org/london.html) so a light socket in 1901, when the episode is set, wouldn't be an anachronism.

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Thank you so very much!

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Its a light switch, not a socket. There's a wire running from the switch up to somewhere above, presumably a light. A posh house like that would have had electricity by 1903/1904 for sure.

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