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... Reviewed by Trevor Allen WHY do we, who live in an age of electric switches, bathrooms, and bombs, experience a nos talgic glow when we. read of houses illuminated throughout by oil lamps, where hip baths were laid out every evening in the bedrooms? Seventy lamps nad to be trimmed and filled everv morning at Denbies, the Dorking home of Sir Stephen Tallents's grandfather, built by his great ...