Number 5 railway cottages.
Back in my electricity board day I got to hear the legend of number 5 railway cottages. Some of the older blokes that i worked with had experienced it first hand.

The house was occupied by a woman and her two children who were in their mid 20's. The woman was obese and confined to a wheelchair. Her son used to push her around.
Not too strange you think.

The wheelchair was an old fashioned cast iron and oak Victorian relic. I must have weighed at least 10 stone. She used to get pushed over the hill to the nearest town on market days , about 3 miles each way.They would wait untill the end of the day and take the bruised fruit and veg that was destined for the bins home.

In the front room were about 20 televisions that the son had aquired on rubbish days. By using diffrent combinations of sound and vision they were able to watch diffrent chanels. For example bbc1 on tv 1 sound on tv 9, bbc 2 on tv 4 sound on tv 5.

The Meter was a coin operated affair mounted low in the back of a kitchen cupboard. It was said that when emptying the meter you NEVER turned around. The daughter had a habit of sitting at the table with one leg up on it and skirt hitched up. Making "come to bed" eyes she would proceed to frig herself off in the kitchen.

It was strongly rumored that the son and daughter were unnaturally close, as was the son to his mother. It was a bit of a case of the family that plays together......

If the call ever went out on the r/t for this address everyone was suddenly on an urgent call over the far side of the county. This was pre cellphone days in the late 80's early 90's.
The family moved on before i started so i was spared this experiencee .

Is inbreeding considered eccentricity?
(welgar, Mon 3 Nov 2008, 7:11, Reply)