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ArishMell · 70-79, M
The dark areas of our basement.
The house is on a gentle slope so the ground floor at the front door is only just above garden level, but some six or seven feet above-ground at the back.
Dad opened access through walls to the entire area, creating "rooms" of standing-height at the door from the back garden, but low crouching height under the front room; all with electric lighting. This enabled installing central-heating pipes and new electricity cables, and created convenient store-rooms.
The lighting was in sections. I had no qualms about going right to the far end, switching on the lights ahead of me; but on exit would turn and face the daylight from the open door before switching off the lamps now behind me, and marching very rapidly to "safety".
I have no idea why I was so nervous - there was nothing dangerous there - but this lingered even in my early-teens!
I put it down to having read a ghost-story book Dad had bought when I was about ten, too young and innocent to recognise the literary trick that made even its daftest fantasies seem "true".
The house is on a gentle slope so the ground floor at the front door is only just above garden level, but some six or seven feet above-ground at the back.
Dad opened access through walls to the entire area, creating "rooms" of standing-height at the door from the back garden, but low crouching height under the front room; all with electric lighting. This enabled installing central-heating pipes and new electricity cables, and created convenient store-rooms.
The lighting was in sections. I had no qualms about going right to the far end, switching on the lights ahead of me; but on exit would turn and face the daylight from the open door before switching off the lamps now behind me, and marching very rapidly to "safety".
I have no idea why I was so nervous - there was nothing dangerous there - but this lingered even in my early-teens!
I put it down to having read a ghost-story book Dad had bought when I was about ten, too young and innocent to recognise the literary trick that made even its daftest fantasies seem "true".
