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Originally Posted by Scott37
'but I wondered what archives might exist?'
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There's a good chance they'll exist. The Whitehaven archive shows that Workington Borough Council had an act passed in 1919 by Royal Assent to obtain electricity from 'the steel works' (there were several at that time) but by 1924 power (a.c. between 2750V and 3300V bulk supply) was provided by the St. Helen's Colliery and Brickworks Company at Siddick pit, who provided the Workington Electric Power Company with surplus steam. This supply was sold on to the Corporation for distribution to consumers.
My late grandmother told me that electricity got to their house in 1926, they being some of the first people in the street to be connected - but they would only get connected if enough people signed up for it!
Try the National Archive of Scotland in Edinburgh or the Glasgow City Archive. I'd be very surprised if judicious googling doesn't throw up a paragraph or two with a record ident number.