On the crimped end of a toothpaste tube there is a small coloured rectangle, and a very large number of people believe it is a code.
Green means all natural.…
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In 1960 a knife blade was forged, then ground by a man lying forward over a spinning sandstone wheel with his face close to the work, then hafted…
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In 1960 a furniture factory held a year of timber in its own yard waiting to dry, cut real joints by machine and fitted them by hand, laid…
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In 1960 a cement works quarried its own limestone next door, blasted it on a schedule the district learned to recognise, and burned it in a rotating steel…
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In 1960 wire rope was made on machines carrying dozens of heavy bobbins spinning around a central axis, in buildings that transmitted the vibration through the floor, with…
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In 1955 the remnants of a trade were still being worked in brick sheds behind houses - a hearth, an anvil, bellows, and a family making chain and…