Barry Bucknall: the Father of DIY

[Bod]

Handy for storing yer rubber ducks under the bath though.

[Nightjar]

Aluminium chequer plate, for the industrial look.

[spuorgelgoog]

Recycled plastic planks?

What footballers' wives have this year, Argos sells next year.

Owain

[Capitol]

Bucknell was possibly the first TV DIY individual, but encyclopedias/compendia from the 20s and 30s gave full instructions for making your own paint, hanging wallpaper, bricklaying, plastering and tool usage. My father built his mothers first radio from a kit somewhere around 1930 and most people made many of their own clothes in the late

19th century. DIY was a necessity.

[John Rumm]

Which then chips back to black/brown etc...

[Tim Watts]

That was the point ;->

I see floppy 80's hairdos on the teenagers again (half the secondary school walks past my house of a morning and afternoon).

Flares seem to have gone again, but skinny trousers are back - mostly on hipsters. Not to mention Grizzly Adams beards.

Hotpants seem to be randomly back (hooray).

Still waiting for beehive hair and some major afros.

What else is there that hasn't been around yet? Horn rimmed glasses - could be the next hipster thing...

[Tim Watts]

No - the beginning of DIY was when Ug decided a couple of finger paintings of him standing victorious on a mammoth would look cool in his cave :)

Then later, DIY was what you did when the roof leaked on your mediaeval hovel.

[Tim Watts]

On 24/11/14 10:05, "Nightjar

[spuorgelgoog]

Actually it was when Mrs Ug decided she wanted a cave painting like Mrs Og had got.

Owain

[Tim Watts]

;->

[soup]

No boards visible on our set-up, we had a strip of lino running from the wall to the edge of the carpet.

I remember sweeping the edge foot or so:lino(hands and knees with a hand brush and dustpan) on that sort of set-up in the 60s/early70s (just a sprog not born till '62 so the 50s are a mystery to me).

[Tim Lamb]

Currently carpet over chipboard.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Tim Watts writes

[michael adams]

A changing pattern of home ownership probably had a big impact on DIY. All the newly built houses built between the wars probably wouldn't have need much DIY for decades while all the older stock was probably either rented out and so not the responsibility of the tenant, or owned by people who relied on tradesmen. However with the decline in the rented sector after WWII all that changed.

michael adams

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[Chris J Dixon]

[Tim Watts]

[Tim Watts]

[Chris J Dixon]

Yes indeed. The area in question was walled off from the rest of us by shiny partitions, which made it pretty acoustically lively.

They gave it curved corners, and a partially barriered entry, all in Perspex. The image this design evoked was such that it was soon nicknamed "Pissoir"

The sound leakage to us on neighbouring desks was pretty irritating, and we got to know key parts of the usual presentation by heart.

Chris

[whisky-dave]

I seem to remmeber as a kid the banistar rails being seeled in behind hardboard too.

[Tim Watts]

Yes they were at our house (along with the doors) when I were a lad.