From a local history site about Bures (a village on the Suffolk/Essex border) explainng how electricity was brought to this area. I think EDF still use the old cables!
This was in 1923 when memories of the first world war were still vivid. Which probably accounts for the time when a man from Norfolk was working at the station, and having a strange accent, was mistaken for a German! He was tormented to the point of having a brick thrown through the front window of his house.
Electricity in Bures
