Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop

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On leaving Oxford he went to work as a reporter at the Slough Observer and the Slough Evening Mail before joining the BBC in 1978 where he worked in the BBC Radio newsroom in London for 22 years. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice.

Married to this personal story will be Tom's history of home ownership and how it nourished pride in the home and the desire to make the home better and more beautiful, and how technological progress in the mass production of tools and materials made it easy to realise - or attempt to realise - those ambitions. And Fort takes the reader on a journey through an account of the history of the rivets, trivets, galvanised buckets, lightbulbs, mousetraps, hammers, rawlplugs, sandpapers, oils, kitchenware and plants that make up its inventory. The historical sections are fascinating, giving insights into the origins of everyday items which i had never before considered. Married to this personal story will be Tom’s history of home ownership and how it nourished pride in the home and the desire to make the home better and more beautiful, and how technological progress in the mass production of tools and materials made it easy to realise – or attempt to realise – those ambitions.It is not what Grandpa would ncracking good yarn' but when it was delivered to my house I opened it and was already at page 30 before I even sat down. Fort appeals to the craftsman in every reader from the position of a fellow traveller on the journey to accomplishment, perhaps never to arrive. Alongside, it presents a fascinating history of technological development; from who thought of screwdrivers to where the spirit level came from, who devised the process of galvanisation and what genius worked out that a suction pad on the end of a piece of wood could unblock sinks. Each short article gives the reader just enough information to acquaint themselves with the miracle of the ingenious solutions people have found to the problems of running a household.

He took early retirement in 2000, just before the publication of his social history of lawns and lawn-mowing, The Grass is Greener. Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets offers fascinating history of technological progress: who thought of screwdrivers, where the spirit level came from, who devised the process of galvanisation, what genius worked out that a suction pad on the end of a piece of wood could unblock sinks and so forth.People were forced to look differently at where they lived, and found ways to value that, and enhance it.

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