Hi there,

For the Queen's Jubilee the BBC are making a series of documentaries about the 50s and one area which we are covering is the rise of DIY during the period. We are looking for people to tell us of their experiences of DIY during the 50s as it became more popular over the decade.

If you are interested and have relevant information please respond to this post - i will pass on my email to relevant people.

Thank you!

If anyone is interested they can also send you a PM.

Best of luck

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so thats anybody 70 to 80 years plus--- assuming they where around 20 years old

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So that's TheScruff by himself then, the rest of us are waaaaayyy too young.


John

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Sounds like a really interesting program

Can just picture a load of geriatrics telling how they DIy'd an Ford 8, Austin 7 etc.

Remember the old man papering a ceiling, or trying too.

Us three boys was holding it up, and he was trying to get it to stick to the ceiling

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I was thinking that too and can see the TV programme trying to re-construct their DIY attempts and the poor old buggers killing themselves

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any advice welcome

That's the sort of thing Scruff - our first volunteer

Think about the way you used to have to do things like hammering those hand drill things into the wall rather than using an sds or building blocks of wood in to secure door frames to.

And as for all that old lead pipework

I'm amazed anything ever got done let alone that 90% of it was better than the tat we put out nowadays

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But we was highly skilled tradesmen not DIYers.

The duke will be on later to tell how he had to paint Buck Palace, to keep liz happy.

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I've still got a Rawlplug jumper, it even gets the odd outing now and again, works fine without batteries transformers or cables.

Propeller wedges - what fun - but they work too.

I am of course far too young to take part in this programme. Pension is years away yet, just not very many.

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One day it will all be firewood.

You mean star drills? Wonderful things; invented carpal tunnel syndrome years before computer mice! Some of the things you are talking about were still common in the early 1970s......

Come to think about it I can remember buying my first Bosch SDS in 1981 or 82 only to find that almost nobody sold the drill bits!

How about a generation game style segment - show all the DIY'ers in the 50's nailing hardboard over panel doors then cut to 90's DIY'ers ripping it off to reveal 'original features'

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i was taught to usee a "rawlplugging tool" before thre bit n brace/handrill



class but true

Or creating feature walls with tongue and grove pine

Blimey Scruff your hair was a bit darker in those days

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