Brickies in London

Dave Plowman (News) · 2014-12-10T00:09:23+00:00

Seems there's a shortage of brickies in London, so according to tonight's BBC1 local London news 'they're' bringing them in from Portugal and paying 1000 quid a week. Of course being TV news, a story isn't a story without pictures so they showed what appeared to be a foreman or boss or whatever laying some bricks. In a finished opening for a window on a new building. With no string line. And starting from a half brick in what was the finished part of the wall. And the ones he laid were all over the place. Obviously going to be removed after the filming. The bricks he was using also appeared to be a different shape - sort of tapered - although the correct colour. Worth a look if you can find it on iPlayer, etc.

Brickies in London

Dec 10, 2014 65 Replies

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Ian Jackson 11 years ago

In message , Andrew Gabriel writes

That rather depends on which father you're referring to. However, although I don't think there's any specific reference to it, until the age of 30, it's highly unlikely that he had a different daytime job.

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whisky-dave 11 years ago

Uh! James T kirk wasn't a carpenter. :)

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bert 11 years ago

In message , Harry Bloomfield writes

The Saint?

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tim..... 11 years ago

so instead, they bring in brickies from abroad who only have 6 months training - exactly what happens in IT to cover a "shortage" of trained professionals (at least in IT they do it so that they can pay peanuts, makes no senses at all if you over pay your imported staff)

tim

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polygonum 11 years ago

And not only in Witness.

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S Viemeister 11 years ago

That's why he didn't need a double for the carpentry sequences.

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