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Live in York itself, but currently with the 'rents in Oxfordshire trying (and patently failing!) to fix their list of domestic issues...

And no, set 2 doesn't work from either switch position at the moment (but I can confirm the bulbs do work, as they have come on many times during the course of this afternoon's problem solving attempts.)

I too have to go out, perhaps for a similar reason. Thanks so much for all your help, and Happy Christmas. Christmas by candlelight is probably how it should be anyway!!

No, not sure. All I know is that both switches used to be able to control each set of lights, before one of the switches broke, and that I haven't done anything to the wiring of the second switch.

Thanks so much! Having googled to find this forum, I don't know how to get thanks to show up on your official thanks count, but I'm very grateful!! The result of that is that I wired the left hand red wires to the left hand side of new switch, and the right hand red wires (excluding the one...

Fortunately I had enough sense not to do that - no, I haven't done anything with it at all, other than unscrew it to look at it and take a photo. I'm happy for it to do nothing as long as the first switch can be made to work to be honest... It's a bit out of the way, whereas the first switch...

Sorry, should have said that, yes there was one, but I'm afraid I don't know where it went, other than from one of the switches to the other...

Not quite - before the old switch (now removed from the first picture) broke, each set of lights - set 1 (5 ceiling bulbs) and set 2 (2 wall fittings, 2 bulbs each) could be controlled by a switch on either switch fitting. Does that make sense?

I regret now hugely that I didn't note how the old switch was wired - I didn't think I would be able to correlate the 1, 2 and 3 labelling to the COM, L1 and L2 labelling on the new switch, and having done a couple of 2 gang switches before that worked, I'm afraid I just assumed that red was COM...

I've looked at lots of threads but can't find the answer to this... I've tried to replace an old two gang two way switch with a new one but can't get it to work. The old one has terminals simply labelled 1, 2 and 3, but the new one has terminals labelled COM, L1 and L2 (for each of the two...