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In 1960 a brickworks dug its own clay from a pit beside the kilns, dried the green bricks in open sheds for weeks depending on the weather, and…
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In 1960 a stonemason cut stone by hand at a bench with a mallet and chisel for a full working day, in a dry enclosed workshop full of…
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In 1960 a wholesale flower market opened at three in the morning, because flowers cut in the night had to be bought, carried, arranged and in a shop…
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In 1960 household waste was collected by men who walked into your yard, lifted a galvanised steel bin full of warm ash and food waste onto their shoulder,…
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In 1960 a gamekeeper lived in a cottage out on the ground, answered to one person, and had no external scrutiny of any kind over how he did…
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In 1965 a record began with a sapphire stylus cutting a groove into soft lacquer in real time while the music played, where a mistake meant starting the…