Dying Trades

[vic mcclymont]

Yesterday out Christmas shopping with her indoors, we visited M&S.
M&S are selling real wood furniture, as opposed to chipboard faced.
Looking at the joints, no mortice and tenon, the top was held in place with screws, screwed into the edges of the cabinet side, and were clearly visible.
The internal shelves were held in place by screws in the side of the cabinet and clearly visible.
Now to me if i am buying expensive furniture, I expect high standards, not visible screw heads.
A decent cabinet maker, would have chucked the lot in the bin.

I also believe that H&S has banned rope and wire slicing, which was common practice not so long ago.

Can we as an exercise in nostalgia identify any other trades/ practices that have been eliminated/ diluted in the past few years.
Vic

[Captain Kong]

Fishing has almost completely disapeared from the British Ports because the eu has banned it and made them scrap all their trawlers. whilst fishing our coasts themselves.
In Sainsburys this week , looked in the fridges, frozen fish.
Ross frozen foods, once a well known fishing company, I picked up a packet of White Fish, ROSS. it was imported from CHINA. I dumped it. No way would I buy that. So what the hell is going on??
Cheers
Brian

[alf corbyn]

hi vic. its not only dying trades but all the manufacturing we no longer do.
I used to deliver copper wire to Loughborough to GEC for electric locomotives
I think they are made abroad now. I think Cameron and his mob are working for the Germans.

[Captain Kong]

The dying trades in Bolton are already dead.
20,000 textile workers sacked and the machinery shipped to India, Coal mines shut, cheaper from Poland.
all our Engineering works closed. Railway engines built at Horwich Loco Works gone forever, exported to the world. now we buy from Germany. Walmesleys Steel works shut, by the Indians and demolished a care home on the site.
and many other trades, Kids cannot get apprenticeships because there are No Trades. all gone overseas with Harold Wisons Lima Agreement.
the only jobs trolly pushing in ASDA and Tescos. What a future for them.
Brian
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. Hi Vic, did you notice where the furniture was made,? I bet it was overseas not Britain.

[John Arton]

Vic
virtually any trade that involves manufacturing in any sort of material has been affected and has been replaced by brand new trades that are called...
Health and Safety and Vetting/Auditing.
rgds
JA

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi Shipmates,Hi Vic mc clymont. Cabinet makers is a term I have not hear for many years, Today everything is made in factorys by computor for self assembly, flat pack, go to any modern furniture discount store in the U.K. its everywhere !!!! some is still made but it will cost you plenty, the days of the craftsman are allmost gone in the U,K. The waiting time are very long for quality made stuff because its very thin on the ground in every type of once common house-hold made furniture , a few years ago? Many very old british companys were victims of the greedy banks, and were force to closed with all the time served skilled craftsman and women, gone to the scrapheap . No one to pass on the hard won skills, too today so no quality furniture

[vic mcclymont]

Didn't look to see where it as made, too expensive.

[vic mcclymont]

Alf, until about ten years ago concorde made cables less than a mile where I live.
i used to go drinking with a guy who worked there, the copper was shipped in from China and was of very poor quality sometimes.
When it was bad they phoned the Chinese and were told skip it we will send you some more.
He said the used to bin a hellava lot.
Vic

[John Pruden]

the ceiling that's just fell in the apolo theatre in London they will not find to many ornamental plasterers around to pattern the ceiling I bet they have to bring in labour from other countries at great costs? its grade two listed that means you get some gobsh.te standing over your shoulder telling you what to do the same people could not knock a nail in?jp

[vic mcclymont]

John, there is a company in Mansfield, Notts., which specialises in manufacturing ornate ceilings/ cornices etc.
If they are chosen a sample will be taken molds made and the plaster manufactured.