Does anybody remember Peter Cooney the glimmerman who worked S.c.r and around that area in the 30s and 40s ??
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Originally posted by kelli View PostWhats a glimmerman?
The reductions in supply caused great privation as a large proportion of the population (especially in the cities and towns) were dependent on gas for heat, cooking and lighting. As there were no readily available alternative sources of fuel, especially for cooking, people were reduced, if they could, to using the residual gas left in the pipes after the reticulated mains supply had been turned off at the gasworks.
Eventually the supply was so restricted that by April 1944 the Minister for Supplies, Seán Lemass was threatening to make a special Emergency Powers Order to officially ration the supply to dwellings and businesses to certain hours of the day and make it a criminal offence to use gas in the "off hours". However that threat was apparently never carried out.
One of the effects of the restrictions was that the smaller supply companies closed or attempted to maintain supply using gas derived from peat and charcoal.
The gas companies' officials were empowered under their supply contract with their customers to enter premises to carry out their inspections and if they detected anyone using gas outside the permitted hours could issue fines or even disconnect the premises from the mains supply. However, some Dublin residents, such as students at Trinity College, were apparently immune from the inspectors' visits.
The term derived from the copy of advertisements published in the media and on posters which enjoined the population not to waste gas ...not even a glimmer.
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