If you know the Top Forge site, you will know that there is a power cable that comes across the river bringing power to the street lights and our neighbours as well as the Forge (Have you ever seen our Electric Tree?). Now Yorkshire Electricity have been renewing their equipment in the area for about six months on and off, and the middle of June was the time when they got around to changing the cables spanning the river.
Unfortunately they managed to incorrectly connect one of the four cables used, which meant that come Sunday morning half our lights were off and non of our motors would work.
To their credit, we had an electrician on site within an hour and then soon after more men and a big van. But that was not the end of it, by mid afternoon we had had six men, two vans and two Land Rovers on site, we nearly had more Y.E. men than Visitors!!
The Fault was repaired and everybody had left by 5:30 PM.
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