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You can buy mains plugs with a cap which has an extension finger hole in it to make removing the plug from the socket easy.
Yes, I know that, thanks
… but they are not all that common, or particularly inexpensive, even now
Much scarcer at the time in question.
1984 according to this page:
https://www.draelectricals.co.uk/plugs-without-sleeved-pins/#:~:text=In%201984%20the%20British%20Standard,finding%20these%20plugs%20on%20appliances.
MichaelG.
A quick plug <groan> for CPC Farnell … doing them for a very reasonable price:
https://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/pe01012/plug-13a-mains-easy-pull/dp/PL13411
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