[poleman]

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

[mr D]

brill vid well done for finding it!

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

[Londoner]

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.

[elite mike]

my god

that looked like hard work

[telboy]

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 :

[poleman]

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

[Glyn H]

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 

[*Mr Tumble]

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

[Simon_King]

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

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