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Brick Bonds: A Life in Britain's Building Trade, 1902-1987 (Paperback)
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Brick Bonds: A Life in Britain's Building Trade, 1902-1987 (Paperback)
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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. 'Brick Bonds' documents his
relationships with fellow workers and specific building techniques
they used (a bond is a brick-laying pattern). His personal memories
of enemy action in wartime, working-class social and leisure
pursuits in London, the 1924 National Building Strike, and notable
ships like Titanic and Bismarck are set into historical context.
Hansford reveals an evolving class awareness and trade union
activism; a declared Socialist, he readily left building sites in
protest, even into the 1970s. His career encompassed Fawley
Refinery, Royal Netley War Hospital, British Overseas Airways
Company flying-boat bases, and Harrods store in London.
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