An interior view of the new transformers. Image: UK Power Networks The first pictures taken inside a new multi-million pound upgrade to Kingston s electricity supply have been revealed. They were published courtesy of electricity company UK Power Networks who announced the completion of a four-year project to update the area s electricity supply with four giant new pieces of equipment known as transformers. The electricity provider said they would help deliver safe and reliable electricity supplies to more than 73,000 local homes and businesses in the area. Transformers (not to be confused with Optimus Prime and co.) reduce voltage to ensure the safe delivery of electricity to other local substations and from there on to people s homes.
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Mar 16, 2021
1964 - The Beatles set a new record for advance sales in the US with 2,100,000 copies of their latest single Can t Buy Me Love. When pressed by American journalists in 1966 to reveal the song s true meaning, Paul McCartney stated I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can t Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line .
1968 - Otis Redding s (Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay hits #1, becoming the first-ever posthumous #1 hit. Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. Redding really was sitting on the dock of the (San Francisco) Bay when he came up with the line, I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again. He took the idea to Steve Cropper, his producer at Stax Records and guitarist in Booker T & the MGs, who wrote the rest of the song with him. Cropper made it about Redding s life, how he went from a small town in Georgia to headlining the famous Fillmore West in