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Personally Marking Your Work.

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Evenin, All, 


I sound like Dixon of Dock Green. I have just been rewiring an old holiday chalet built in the 1950s.    I often wonder just who wired it up originally and just what type of person he was. I know that the ceiling joists were hand drilled with a brace and bit.    Sometimes I find old empty cigarette packets under the floor of old houses, or old empty pipe tobacco packets.    I have started leaving my initials and a date in some of my new installations so that in say 50 years time somebody will find it and say, well this was installed by Z, isn't it old fashioned, but it lasted well.


Do you date anything or initial anything apart from light bulbs, (lamps) for others to find in the future?   



Z.
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    Which one of you left this under the bathroom floor boards?


    Andy B
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    OMS:




    Chris Pearson:




    perspicacious:

    Rather than the vanity approach, I used to save the shiny low denomination coins picked up in change that were of that year, and discard them under the floorboards as I would have liked to have found some that a Victorian chap had done!




    Ah yes, but there wasn't anything much, if at all, under your average Victorian floorboards. Once they were down, they were down and I don't suppose that anybody expected them ever to be lifted.


    Slipped through the cracks - literally


    Indeed - I have found some hair grips under our floor boards, which, presumably, were dropped by female RN personnel between 1940 and 1965 when they lived here.

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    Sparkingchip:
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    Which one of you left this under the bathroom floor boards?


    Andy B 




     

    Who’s going to own up to being old enough to remember Parade magazine?


    It really was quite tame!


    Andy B
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    You mean the ones were the ladies were showing only their bossoms? That was daring back then. Oh how times have changed.


    Anyway aside from that it is always interested and very informative to find old newspapers under the boards, not only the news stories but the adverts. Prices and claims made in advertising of things gone by. A history lesson that is actually interesting. In fact one day "she who must be obeyed" was helping me on a job and looking down on us we saw our oldest Son, an old newspaper protecting the top of a pantry cupboard with the college pics of our lad in cap and gown from 10+ years earlier. Strange coincidence, the paper had over 50 students pictured but the way it was laid and folded up there it was only his pic showing down at us

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