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1970's Building site | 1970's London | Tower 42 | Writers Workshop | 1977

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  • čas přidán 17. 06. 2019
  • We take a look around some 1970's Building sites including central London. Including the construction of the Natwest Tower (Tower 42)
    First shown: 20/06/1977
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    Quote: VT15819

Komentáře • 22

  • @stevepearce6689
    @stevepearce6689 Před 5 lety +18

    You think they would have finished London by now....

  • @Dr.D00p
    @Dr.D00p Před 5 lety +6

    Haha! The surveyor...smoking his pipe, writing in his little book, adding a sense of authority & calm amongst the organised chaos of the basement excavation.

  • @waverley610
    @waverley610 Před 3 lety +4

    worked on that site back then and walked up to the top, tallest building in europe I think at that time.

  • @James-oo1yq
    @James-oo1yq Před 5 lety +7

    Glad they have their flat caps and sort shoes on, got a be comfy while tons of steel float overhead

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 5 lety

      No hard hats there

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder Před 5 lety

      @airscrew1 The guys that built the skyscrapers decades ago knew a thing or two about survival, unlike the H&S self righteous mob.

    • @smorris12
      @smorris12 Před 5 lety +5

      Ah, the stench of the "we don't need no safety gear" ballcocks. Go find the stats for deaths and maimings on building sites for then and now and see how they compare. Even 40 years ago deaths on big projects were viewed as "one of those things that can't be helped".
      The worst of it is the the HSE are a very prosaic organisation. The problems come from over cautious people making up stuff and saying "the HSE says so"

    • @James-oo1yq
      @James-oo1yq Před 5 lety +5

      airscrew1 I've worked in similar situations (warehouses etc) since I was 16, I am 46 now and have both my feet thanks to steel toe caps. You'd have to be crazy to work on a site like that without at least your boots and safety hat. An RSJ will kill you either way...but it's usually a spanner or a big tile that comes down. H&S must have saved thousands since these days in the video.

  • @Mr.Rude.
    @Mr.Rude. Před 5 lety +27

    Machinery was much quieter back then

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah even at a consumer level too. I remember the first electric lawn mowers and they were very quiet, compared with todays garden mowers and strimmers that are deafening to the point they can be heard in the next street!

    • @asnowballinhell
      @asnowballinhell Před 5 lety +3

      @@EgoShredder /whoosh?

    • @Scalihoo
      @Scalihoo Před 5 lety +1

      Electric motors, as quite as my Ebike , but the oil industry complained so combustion motors were ushered back in { little known fact in history } 😃

    • @GEricG
      @GEricG Před 4 lety +3

      @@EgoShredder I think that the original poster was joking about the lack of sound.

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder Před 4 lety

      @@GEricG Yep but I usually go off at a tangent! 😃

  • @LuisGonzalez-pw7rl
    @LuisGonzalez-pw7rl Před 5 lety +2

    Magnific tower, thanks for Sharingan THAMES TV...

  • @djboris351
    @djboris351 Před 5 lety +5

    Without gloves!!!!

  • @SANIZIP
    @SANIZIP Před 5 lety +1

    8:20...That's the works for the UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION being built on Bedford Way.

  • @stevegreen9460
    @stevegreen9460 Před 5 lety +1

    bloke at 3.56 predending to do some work...the old taking notes next to a peice of tecnical equipment...lol

  • @dxutube
    @dxutube Před 5 lety +2

    No sound

    • @079565543
      @079565543 Před 3 lety

      Yer ...U had to go up to TV. ..and raise the Volume ...Unless this was shown pre film @ a Cinema .. U would Be able to hear it b4 or after come dine at Tandoori hut ... 114 something st ... 😉