An interesting glimpse into a world where electricity still was rather a novel thing with much status.
I well remember the Electricity Showrooms in my ( quite large) village in West Yorkshire in the 1950/60's.
Presided over by important men apparently with special knowledge. In fact, simply shop assistants.
When my mother bought an iron there she had to be instructed by an electric showroom man who came to our house on how to use the iron! Round about 1958/9, I would estimate. Doom-ladened, rather threatening and definitely patronising tones were used to emphasise the need for extreme caution in using it. The man, of course,would never have ironed a single thing in his life! My mother having spent many years doing little else but ironing.
I was struck by the oddness of this scenario even as a child. What I think about it now is better not expressed.
Well done to your Miss Griffin for breaching this bastion of "cod" superiority. I bet she would not have tolerated being shown how to use a common place bit of electrical kit.
