When you had to make your own pattress

[user 37201]

Found these being taken out last week

 

[Andy™]

thats how they used to be made. its not a DIY make your own box

 

[poni]

used to be made out of rose wood, so I have been told, the same as the old consumer units

 

[kerching]

used to be made out of rose wood, so I have been told, the same as the old consumer units

Try burning one, I did. It laughed at a MAPP gas torch, laughed I tell you, laughed

 

[Oldman22]

I'm sure I still have a couple of those wooden back boxes hiding behind plastic lighting switch plates in my 1960 house.