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mark2collection · 6th Dec 2018, 10:51 pm

We now have the set of tree lights that my parents bought, for their first Christmas when they married, 1972.

Tradition was, my father & I wiggling each lamp in turn to find the loose connection and 'hey-presto' it was usually the last one!

Now I'm a father and myself & daugher are keeping the lamps alive ... there's only 20 filament lamps on the green skinny 2-core cable, wired in-series, but they give off a wonderful/colourful glow.

Finding replacement lamps these days is getting difficult.

Mark

6th Dec 2018, 10:51 pm	#4
mark2collection Hexode Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Royal Berkshire, UK. Posts: 471	Re: Festive vintage technology traditions/memories. We now have the set of tree lights that my parents bought, for their first Christmas when they married, 1972. Tradition was, my father & I wiggling each lamp in turn to find the loose connection and 'hey-presto' it was usually the last one! Now I'm a father and myself & daugher are keeping the lamps alive ... there's only 20 filament lamps on the green skinny 2-core cable, wired in-series, but they give off a wonderful/colourful glow. Finding replacement lamps these days is getting difficult. Mark