Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop

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Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets offers fascinating history of technological progress: who thought of screwdrivers, where the Stanley knife came from, who devised the process of galvanisation, what genius worked out that a suction pad on the end of a piece of wood could unblock sinks and so forth. Alongside, it presents a fascinating history of technological development; from who thought of screwdrivers to where the spirit level came from, who devised the process of galvanisation and what genius worked out that a suction pad on the end of a piece of wood could unblock sinks. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. p>

Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. It is not what Grandpa would ncracking good yarn' but when it was delivered to my house I opened it and was already at page 30 before I even sat down.

And now let us sing of mousetraps and flypaper, nails and screws, buckets and plant plugs, the extraordinary miscellany of goods displayed in every right-thinking ironmongery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Covering everything from the humble hammer to the Black and Decker, no stone (or tool) is left unappreciated. Married to this personal story will be Tom’s history of home ownership and how it nourished pride in the home and the desire to make the home better and more beautiful, and how technological progress in the mass production of tools and materials made it easy to realise – or attempt to realise – those ambitions. And Fort takes the reader on a journey through an account of the history of the rivets, trivets, galvanised buckets, lightbulbs, mousetraps, hammers, rawlplugs, sandpapers, oils, kitchenware and plants that make up its inventory.The historical sections are fascinating, giving insights into the origins of everyday items which i had never before considered. Bradbury suggested that vendors of all things bright and beautiful should carry signs outside proclaiming “Hardware spoken here”. People were forced to look differently at where they lived, and found ways to value that, and enhance it.

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On leaving Oxford he went to work as a reporter at the Slough Observer and the Slough Evening Mail before joining the BBC in 1978 where he worked in the BBC Radio newsroom in London for 22 years. Each short article gives the reader just enough information to acquaint themselves with the miracle of the ingenious solutions people have found to the problems of running a household. This is Tom Fort’s British riposte, written as a member of a family that runs such an establishment in his little Oxfordshire village. p>

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