Living off-grid for almost 80 years

When she was was born - near the Irish border in County Fermanagh in 1942 - it was not unusual for families to live without electricity and running water. Margaret's neighbours only began to update their homes in the late 1940s and 1950s. But her family missed the opportunity to join the trend due to her mother's death, when Margaret was 10, and her father's ill health.
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