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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: poleman on June 08, 2008, 12:58:58 am

Title: Window Cleaning!
Post by: poleman on June 08, 2008, 12:58:58 am

www.britishpathe.com/images//preview/00000000/00003000/00003167.WMV  how times have changed  ;D

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Post by: mr D on June 08, 2008, 01:30:58 am

brill vid well done for finding it!

but in all honesty times haven changed that much have they!

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Post by: Londoner on June 08, 2008, 06:38:30 am

I wonder when that was made. Not a squeegee in sight.

The H+S is a bit tighter these days but I can remember seeing a bloke cleaning windows in a bosuns chair not that many years ago. No harness, just sitting in the chair. He was a long way up as well.

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Post by: elite mike on June 08, 2008, 10:37:48 am

my god

that looked like hard work

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Post by: telboy on June 08, 2008, 11:06:43 am

To think me and a lot of other shiners used
to hang out of widows like that wichout a harness.
Aint that right Ian (Lancaster)? ???

Crazy ::)

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Post by: poleman on June 08, 2008, 12:00:28 pm

Its was filmed in 1962 which I believe the squeegee wasn't a around then 

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Post by: Glyn H on June 08, 2008, 12:17:50 pm

I used to do an eleven floor Trade union building - no harness - just open a window get out and stand on the narrow ledge- I must have been insane, I dont even like standing on a flat roof nowdays.
I think squeegees became popular in the mid 70s mostly for shop fronts and large patio doors, normal house windows was leather and scrim if very dirty or just scriim.- the guy i worked with kept his thumb nail long so he could scrape the bird muck off  :o

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Post by: *Mr Tumble on June 08, 2008, 12:31:23 pm

I love colour archive film.  Great find.  And check out those DA hair cuts!

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Post by: Simon_King on June 08, 2008, 12:52:58 pm

Quote from: Glyn H link=topic=56511.msg481315#msg481315 date=1212923870 [b

the guy i worked with kept his thumb nail long so he could scrape the bird muck off[/b]  :o

 :o :o ::)
Great idea....save on buying scraper blades!