The lights went on in Lismore on 31 October 1970. A mere fifty years ago. On that Saturday, at 3 Newfield Terrace, the late Donald John and Margaret MacDonald with their children Peggy and Lachlan (and a few dignitaries) stared up and witnessed a lightbulb becoming bright. Peggy looks suitably sceptical!
And why was Lismore so late in being connected? A good question with only one answer. It didn’t matter. They certainly knew how to lay cables. One from Oban connected the telephone to Newfoundland in the 1950s. Laying an electricity cable to Lismore would have been easy.
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