First day

[MIXERMAN]

Wot did u do on first day in this business. That's if u old geezers can remember.

 

[smoother09]

Can't really remember a first day I sure will remember the last though!!

 

[martinemj]

I Can't remember what I did last week

 

[tapit]

Wot did u do on first day in this business. That's if u old geezers can remember.

stuck beads on with gear, stuck jute scrim into gear, long time ago.

 

[Cockney]

Wot did u do on first day in this business. That's if u old geezers can remember.

Pfft! I’ve not got a chance of that mate. Started from the bottom though so probably doing some awful s**t job somewhere! Lol

 

[MIXERMAN]

I was on screed pump . Massive load of sharp tipped up .I said that should keep us going for a couple of weeks . I'd done a bit with brickies. This big paddy just laughed. I wasn't laughing when he dropped me home that night

 

[The Hobo]

Wot did u do on first day in this business. That's if u old geezers can remember.

I was told to go and ask joiner to make me a hand board to go with the part worn trowel iwas given to me off the boss man /then I had to try and coat in a window opening that been bricked up lime backing coat haired

 

[Cockney]

I was told to go and ask joiner to make me a hand board to go with the part worn trowel iwas given to me off the boss man /then I had to try and coat in a window opening that been bricked up lime backing coat haired

You’ve got a good memory norm!

 

[The Hobo]

You’ve got a good memory norm!

certain things stick in the brain/but if you asked me where I worked last week or where the fcking van keys are no chance/fist day at work was mid july 1965 at a very large Victorian grammer school being turned into teachers training college cant remember what pay was but there was ashilling a week tool allowance

 

[smoother09]

certain things stick in the brain/but if you asked me where I worked last week or where the fcking van keys are no chance/fist day at work was mid july 1965 at a very large Victorian grammer school being turned into teachers training college cant remember what pay was but there was ashilling a week tool allowance

Is that you in the middle norm?

how times have changed eh

 

[The Hobo]

Is that you in the middle norm?View attachment 39724how times have changed eh

in the middle of the shafts u mean

 

[Stewie03]

Knocking up bags of Browning in a mixing bath on top of 2 milk crates

 

[ChrispyUK]

stuck beads on with gear, stuck jute scrim into gear, long time ago.

Nothing’s changed then, apart from the scrim.

 

[The Hobo]

Knocking up bags of Browning in a mixing bath on top of 2 milk crates

what was on the crates u or bath

 

[John j]

Running boards.up stairs then mixing browing in bath. Though remember the boards alot more

 

[Stewie03]

what was on the crates u or bath

the bath but then I would use the crates after when he would let me skim

 

[paulf]

Knocking out some 100 year old s&c with a mash hammer amd bolster for an expansion joint.

 

[The Hobo]

Knocking out some 100 year old s&c with a mash hammer amd bolster for an expansion joint.

minus knuckles too

 

[Rigsby]

Worked on Victor road, Dore in Sheffield, the second Monday in July 1972.

I had bought some ex army boots from Wakefields Army stores and I got a blister on my heel. Assisted Billy Green a very fit 63 year old labourer mixing Browning in a tin bath then Carlite finish in a bucket mixed with a stick.

Second and third day we worked at Whitbreads brewery and the labourer made me have it with getting water then delivering mixed buckets of plaster two flights up.

The blister burst then blistered again and by Wednesday dinner I was sent home. Ankle was on a mess took nearly two weeks to heal.

 

[paulf]

minus knuckles too

And the shame of having the hammer amd bolster pulled out of my hands and told hit it don't f**k**g tickle it.

 

[MIXERMAN]

I was told to go and ask joiner to make me a hand board to go with the part worn trowel iwas given to me off the boss man /then I had to try and coat in a window opening that been bricked up lime backing coat haired

Bloody hell your going back a bit .did you go to work on horse and cart.

 

[tapit]

Worked on Victor road, Dore in Sheffield, the second Monday in July 1972.

I had bought some ex army boots from Wakefields Army stores and I got a blister on my heel. Assisted Billy Green a very fit 63 year old labourer mixing Browning in a tin bath then Carlite finish in a bucket mixed with a stick.

Second and third day we worked at Whitbreads brewery and the labourer made me have it with getting water then delivering mixed buckets of plaster two flights up.

The blister burst then blistered again and by Wednesday dinner I was sent home. Ankle was on a mess took nearly two weeks to heal.

love you stories Rigsby

 

[The Hobo]

Bloody hell your going back a bit .did you go to work on horse and cart.

no but for local jobs we used hand carts them thing with big wooden wheels on

 

[MIXERMAN]

Are you still working a lot hobo.

 

[hector]

getting into laings van,..6 blokes in all smoking woodbines/players,that lasted 20 minutes until we got to site,..flatten angle beads/sweeping up......old labourer was captured first day of the second world war,got all his war stories,...remember mixing plaster with a plunger,bucket after bucket after bucket,heard this shouting,an arguement between a cockney plasterer who had lived up north for 30 years,still had a cockney accent,almighty row over handbord/hawk,.....some things never change,.....i did not have a clue what all the fuss was about,...could not understand why all the other trades had there bait at set times, but plasterers every day was different,

 

[smoother09]

Put everything on and finished with one trowel

 

[The Hobo]

getting into laings van,..6 blokes in all smoking woodbines/players,that lasted 20 minutes until we got to site,..flatten angle beads/sweeping up......old labourer was captured first day of the second world war,got all his war stories,...remember mixing plaster with a plunger,bucket after bucket after bucket,heard this shouting,an arguement between a cockney plasterer who had lived up north for 30 years,still had a cockney accent,almighty row over handbord/hawk,.....some things never change,.....i did not have a clue what all the fuss was about,...could not understand why all the other trades had there bait at set times, but plasterers every day was different,

hope u told him its afcking HANDBOARD LOL

 

[Rigsby]

Handboard up ere in the North.

Mention a Hawk when being quizzed by the brain doctor and you answer KES.