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Hi yes "jobs a good un" as they say. Thankyou all for your 'helpful and kind' advice although you always get one that throws a negative comment in there somewhere haha.

I must say I am extremely grateful for all your advice and help thus far. Thankyou for your time and patience

Yes one is a single switch and one is a double - the single switch control's the front light and the double controls the back and the front. I have identified the switch wire in both

No there are two

Is this diagram the right sort of thing?

Thankyou that makes it sound a hell of a lot easier :)

I have done this with the wires switching the switch on and off and two of the wires read 1 and the other one would jump then drop jump then drop

I have done this and established the wire with power which will be the switch?

This is probably a better PIC of my meter

Which setting do I need to use

I have my test meter to hand, the switch is off should I keep the fuse box off to establish which is the switch wire

This is the light I am going to put up

Sorry its black and red, and yes just a bog standard ceiling rose and I'll upload a photo nke

Blue and brown and earth

There are three wires coming out the ceiling

Hi I have basic experience with electrics. I have changed many bog standard ceiling roses, sockets, adding sockets to a ring but I have recently received a couple of light fittings (with 3 bulbs on each). I took the old fitting down and forgot the most obvious thing to mark the wires/take a...