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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: hasti on November 23, 2014, 03:55:39 pm

Title: Health & Safety in 1950s
Post by: hasti on November 23, 2014, 03:55:39 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDL00qaq2-I


 :)

Title: Re: Health & Safety in 1950s
Post by: Clever Forum Name on November 23, 2014, 04:08:44 pm

Thanks for posting. Quite interesting.

Sam is a numpty tho.  ;D

Title: Re: Health & Safety in 1950s
Post by: Norman & Sons Window & Gutter Cleaning on November 23, 2014, 04:17:54 pm

Very Interesting,
I did not know about the tax on windows ?

Title: Re: Health & Safety in 1950s
Post by: hasti on November 23, 2014, 04:34:33 pm

You welcome guys  :)
You noticed how beautiful English the reporter speaks.  :)
Those were the days that you had to speak queens english before you got a job as a reporter.  :)

Title: Re: Health & Safety in 1950s
Post by: PoleKing on November 23, 2014, 06:51:41 pm

Quote from: Norman & Sons Window Cleaning Ltd on November 23, 2014, 04:17:54 pm

Very Interesting,
I did not know about the tax on windows ?

In one of Bill Byson's books he says that's where the term 'daylight robbery' come from.
Not sure if it's 100% accurate but sounds about right.

Title: Re: Health & Safety in 1950s
Post by: rosskesava on November 23, 2014, 08:50:54 pm

Did people really talk like that?

Interesting video.