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Brick Bonds: A life in Britain's Building Trade, 1902-1987

Hansford, Roger
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Imprint:
Lulu.com, August 2019
Notes:
Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or 'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own home single-handedly aged twenty-one, describes economic privations and poor weather conditions. His career encompassed Fawley Refinery, Royal Netley War Hospital, British Overseas Airways Company flying-boat bases, and Harrods store in London.
ISBN:
978024421791
Language:
English
BRN:
2872194
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