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In 1960 making malt meant soaking barley in a cistern, shovelling it out wet by hand, spreading it a few inches deep across a stone floor the length…
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In 1960 measuring a distance meant two people dragging a steel band across the ground and correcting the result for temperature, sag and slope. Measuring a height meant…
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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 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 1955 a chimney sweep arrived on foot or by bicycle with a bundle of cane rods over his shoulder, pinned a sheet across the fireplace, and pushed…