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In 1965 a car was assembled by several thousand people doing fixed tasks in the interval between one body arriving and the next, for pay negotiated job by…
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In 1955 the hop harvest was brought in by families who came out from the cities every autumn, lived for a month in one-room huts with a fire…
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In 1955 the gas in the pipes was made in the town, out of coal, by men shovelling it into furnaces and raking out the coke by hand.…
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In 1960 a working theatre flew its scenery on hemp rope hauled by hand, loaded iron counterweights from an unguarded gallery several storeys up, lit the stage with…
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In 1955 the great terminal stockyards were among the biggest industrial operations anywhere - hundreds of acres of timber pens inside a city, with their own railway sidings,…
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In 1960 soft drinks came in glass bottles that came back. The empties returned filthy, were washed in hot caustic, were inspected by one person watching them pass…