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Originally Posted by broadgage
Yes, it was common practice in bedsits and the like to only meter power sockets and not the lighting.
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When I was a student I lived in a room in an old victorian house in N. London with no power sockets at all, only the light. I used an adaptor as in the original post to plug my razor in.
Metering was done by the landlady who seemed to spend all her time watching the meter in the cellar. If I switched the light on before it was dark it took her about ten seconds to run up three flights of stairs to tell me to turn it off. When I rented a TV (also plugged in to the light socket via such an adaptor) she charged me 10p per week for the electricity.