1970's House building | How to build a house | seeing and doing | 1975

Thames TV's Educational programme 'Seeing and Doing' visited a building site.
First shown: 15/05/1975
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Music: Dreaming in 432HZ - Unicorn Heads

[@devrajbhudia1801]

What a great days of building sites work in those classic days where there were a genuine masters in their skills

[@peterpan5865]

Of all the building company's that have come and gone, Murphy is still around today.

[@jamesmcmahon7091]

These men were masters of their trade And a beautiful massy track machine may I add

[@martiniv8924]

Green Murphy’s , my uncle worked for for many years, the good old days, the old Scammell with I bet no road tax, no operators licence and a tank full of ‘Red’ 😜

[@edwardkennedy9919]

How do you know it's a scammell I can't tell.

[@bradpiovesan8550]

Love the background music 🎵

[@DiscoFang]

That hair at 0:49! Magnificent!

[@jharris7407]

The old Levi/wrangler denim jacket brilliant !!

[@mickeyp5122]

Love it !! Not a High Viz in sight.

[@D0csavage1]

Before the university taught manicured, never experienced a blister bureaucrat interfering busybodies realised they could make money out of the hardworking with his hands honest man. Back in the day before these dead beat wage packet thieving bast*rds interfered the way to seek this line of work was to go to a building site to get started. Now hard hats, fluorescent vest, CSCS card, safety awareness course £££'s before you step one foot beyond the gate to get to the onsite office.

[@freespeechisneverwrong9351]

And people were injured, killed and maimed in their hundreds every year.

[@D0csavage1]

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 People still die. Over 100 in Great Britain in 2019/20. And this is with all the CSCS, CPCS schemes for example in operation. The CPCS card cost me over £2,000 to obtain after working for a few years out with the construction industry. Why should I have to stump up that kind of cash to support the bureaucrats before setting foot back on site when there are still accidents?

[@freespeechisneverwrong9351]

@@D0csavage1 I do not say that the system is perfect however less than 50 die in Construction every year. I have been in the industry for 30 years. I remember the numbers from 2000 being roughly 75-78. So we are improving. In addition I work in site management and I remember it very well that we would have a cut finger/hand on a daily basis on most sites. Many in the industry could tell you of scaffolders taking a step too far on a scaffold, hands being crushed by machinery, operatives falling through holes and men in their 50’s with their backs broken from heavy labour. Now many of the Pipefitters (tough lot) I work alongside won’t work unless they have site gloves. They don’t want to go home with grubby hands that never wash clean and cut fingers. I am unsure why you are forking out so much when I’ve just googled it and you can get it for £1650. Quite frankly if you are going to operate machinery I and many others would rather know that you have gone through some level of training and you’re not just a mate of the foreman. By the same token this protects your position by ensuring the foreman’s mate (who isn’t qualified) doesn’t just start operating machinery when he feels like it.

[@D0csavage1]

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 *"I am unsure why you are forking out so much when I’ve just googled it and you can get it for £1650."* -- I ain't lying!! 360° Tracked Excavator Red Card initial cost Product Price: £1,900.00 Duration Days 10 + CSCS ➡ Blue Card will mean in excess of £2,000. In my experience of operating both tracked excavators and 180° backactors on site I have witnessed blue card ops of these machines shun the CPCS version on operating this plant because it is more productive their way. They have the cards that give them the green light for operating heavy machinery on site. Much like the learner taught before the driving test to feed the steering wheel through their hands, once the test is passed that is the first item that is tested on, thrown out the window as soon as the L plates are off. So I'd rather have an experienced operator working nearby than a fresh operator that has never worked on site before operating plant equipment according to the operating theory of a pen pusher.

[@lewisgreen1633]

Those old diesel mixers! 24 sand to half a bag of dust (the old half hundred weight bags). Memories of a mixer man, although however well you did it the brickes would always moan bless ‘em😅 Great days!!

[@ryanarch9934]

My uncle had a mixer same as that, gas engine chain drive. We park the the mixer Behind the dump trailer full of sand an stone. Fire up the mixer one 1 pale of water one bag 90lb Portland cement rotate back to open dump trailer and I'd shovel sand and stone until the mix was perfect. We used auger mixers for type type s block mortar same for type n brick mortar. I'm from Canada things abit different.

[@OneSwitch]

Great choice of music. Very slow-TV / Eno. Nice. :)

[@loejets]

I would have preferred it without music. But that’s just me

[@harrycallaghan22]

It sort of adds a sad, almost dark feel to the film. Like it.

[@softshoes]

I started on a housing crew straight out of high school, 1972. They wouldn't let me carry a hammer for the first 6 months lol. Told me I was to dangerous with it.

[@c.c8752]

Could have at least given you a left handed screwdriver

[@softshoes]

@@c.c8752 I was to busy looking for nails with the heads on the other end to use it.

[@purplemoonproductions9269]

fab upload love the music

[@peterquezadavaldes8654]

Pre 1970s loud narrators disappear, also that brick laying quality went down after the 60s you can tell. Guy looks like he hates laying brick. This music sounds like Chernobyl 🥶

[@everythinghomerepair1747]

The music perfectly captures the 1970s malaise (in the U.S. at least)

[@brikkijim]

Looks like a British film. Frogs are different than here in USA. Nice video.

[@pallyali786]

Good old days. Good choice of music too.

[@muhalwi22.]

continued success brother. ❤️ sukses terus saudara. ✌️4

[@daverobbo4345]

Absolutely love this good old days proper construction. No health and safety it's all gone to far now . Great upload thank for the memories

[@henrymasters4778]

You don’t like health and safety ?💀

[@murkygrom]

@@henrymasters4778 Don't you know, those were the good old days! Being severely injured on a building site was every Englishman's God-given right! It's extremely patriotic and manly to be crippled for life 😍

[@jamiejosh96]

Yes and as a consequence thousands die each year from asbestos…. Ahh good old days 🤦‍♂️

[@purplemoonproductions9269]

simple learning that lasts a lifetime

[@robbiekennedy1029]

Great video

[@godzilla1376]

Fookin hell is that moxxy laying them bricks 😀

[@DiscoFang]

How to build a house? First step get yourself an industrial & commercial high rise crane.

[@pauldunneska]

Looked more like the foundations for apartment blocks.

[@doddsy65]

Haunting

[@chriscarroll3204]

How to build a house! More like how to put a foundation down . As for the brickwork , hahaha , he could of used a catapult rather than a trowel and done a neater job.

[@BA-ec3ts]

You a brickie eh

[@chriscarroll3204]

@@BA-ec3ts... yep.

[@BA-ec3ts]

Walk this way

[@z00h]

I was thinking that there's some mixup of images going on, the "quality" of work resembles something that should belong behind iron curtain. Then again, when you compare the quality of British housing with housing abroad, it is in most cases worse than what they'd been building, not to mention anything that was built across the channel in the so called West.

[@mikeznel6048]

@@chriscarroll3204 Bricky should know if its gonna be covered up its doesn't have to look pretty. Just be plumb, straight and level and follow the prints. ;)

[@jonathanleblanc2140]

Brian Eno did music for ThamesTV?

[@DAVID-bv2gv]

The Good old days no hi vis no hard hat and they still got the job done 👍

[@billywright8606]

High vis and a hard hat won’t do your job haha 😂 sorry just had to put that in there

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Yeah and a fucking colossal death rate you ignorant prick.

[@Ellis01234567890]

It's funny how stupid fucks like you complain about health and safety going too far then complain it's not good enough when someone is hurt. You're probably too cool for safety though and say bollocks like "you just need common sense" when ironically you have none.

[@mikeznel6048]

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 No, thats incorrect. Death rate went up because people got stupider.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

@@mikeznel6048 That would explain people people voting for the Tories and also Brexit. Stupider it is.

[@nigelhawkins2045]

I work in construction for many years on crossrail and high speed rail link Kent and water treatment over years it's got much went down hill

[@nigelhawkins2045]

All gone down hill now in industry 5 years ago hanged up my hard hat and moved on to new job as operater in paper mill that was 5 years ago

[@nigelhawkins2045]

Never looked back don't miss cold days and hot summers or long 12 hour s getting on train to London

[@nigelhawkins2045]

All industry has gone now

[@highpath4776]

would like to know where this us, and the above ground slab finish

[@paulthomas3841]

Good old days, when they were MEN,, and all the Lorrys were made in Great Britain , they worked Hard

[@vanderark89]

Ooh those men were hard

[@vanderark89]

Sorry couldn’t resist

[@bsanchez3563]

Who in all honesty gives a shit WHO it is long as they are not cutting corners and know what to do and are reliable? Lol long as the persons honest, respectable helpful and knows what they are doing and how to safely do said stuff then it is a matter of being well also for some of it physically able as it does still sometimes require crawling etc..

[@jasoneldridge4738]

Brick laying in loafers

[@Custardpoint948]

Still work like this in Cornwall 👍

[@DarksideoftheSteve]

I wonder if those buildings are still around today, or whether they've since been knocked down in the name of "Regeneration"...

[@garycurtis8149]

The bricky had some good steel toe cap boots on

[@htsofbrudodelmundo5232]

That’s gotta be the worst brick laying iv ever seen

[@christopherlowrie9484]

Was probably building internals that will be plastered over

[@oddities-whatnot]

@@christopherlowrie9484 cheers, I had wondered. My old Victorian house had similar internal walls when I stripped them. Doesnt need to be neat mortar if plastered over, although the mortar had gone black and powdery, right mess that house was.

[@keithallen8096]

Was safety gear an optional extra !

[@bullvine2062]

Another comment, seriously look at the state of the brickwork.

[@martindaniels1099]

Yep...thrown together and thats why most of the 70's and 80's stuff I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, I think the brickie's name was Jerry ....

[@stationsixtyseven67]

Nowadays they're just steel framed wooden shacks with a brick skin.

[@martindoherty4843]

the, good, old, days

[@matthewbrooker]

Just like Spanish builders 50 years later....but quicker!!

[@marklimbrick]

Really nice ambient track. But one of Daphne Oram's dynamic would go better.

[@garydouglass9577]

Built to last them days. Not like the shit half arsed brickys today I've laboured too over the years. Nowhere near as solid.

[@paulmaryon9088]

70s houses were shit,

[@GG-im1cb]

That bricky was as rough as a badgers arse, not a plumb or level course in sight, and loads of gaps in the mortar beds.

[@fruitpunchbigga3251]

@@GG-im1cb you mean perps

[@johnquintana7276]

I remember when working hard was an obligation

[@russchadwell]

And, a mighty big house it is

[@martyndavid2094]

No work gear, no battery operated tools, an old genie to get power, gas mantels to see with , double glazing not quite in yet. No king span insulation boards, gravity heating systems. Pouring concrete on pipes ! Rubbish money and very cold winters , a lot easier now a days

[@ournewzealandfarm960]

It’s weird that no one has hi vizz.

[@Whiteboytripping]

70s houses: low popcorn ceilings

[@ullscarf]

It's very similar now.

[@c.c8752]

Was there nothing that Murphy didn’t build in London

[@royalstevep68]

These days the film will last 20 mins but in real time, lol

[@888ssss]

there is a lot of micks on that site.

[@malmes999]

them wall ties became a big problem

[@malc50]

Got that right Jimmy, I spotted that too.

[@bigbird9794]

Maybe the creepiest music ever.

[@tinytonymaloney7832]

Wierd music. Like a gruesome horror movie. I was half expecting to see a body pulled up by the digger. I bet the average wage on that site then was about £30 a week an they probably fed a family of 4, owned a cortina or allegro and went to Bournemouth for holiday 😃😃

[@oddities-whatnot]

That was life back then. People lived happily with what they had. It was a simpler existence. Those days sadly missed.

[@Happyheart146]

In a caravan lol, God it was good!

[@johnnoonan5802]

thats the way it was hard graft

[@Happyheart146]

@@johnnoonan5802 aye, something to be said for boomers and X. It wasn't all handed out on a plate. And we were happier, and we had so much more...

[@spgranorthiam123]

you'd be lucky to get £30.00 a week more like £12.00 first building job I had was £0.6.3 an hour,

[@georgianativeatlanta9433]

Looking like Conway Twitty sitting in that escavater

[@evanman1011]

Hard working people with poor health and safety management at that time. 👷🏼‍♂️

[@silenthunteruk]

No actual audio?

[@malc50]

Somebody put the wrong title on this video!

[@ciaranchapman1099]

90% irish👍

[@johndeere1629]

The best workers

[@isla2017]

The days when men were men , and women were glad of it ??

[@enochpowel3030]

When times are hard men get tough. When times are easy men get soft

[@gvi341984]

Can anyone tell the location?

[@mootpointjones8488]

Might be Amhurst Road, E8 in background when we see the bricklayer working, so they'd be building the housing estate that comprises of high rise flats.

[@Kev-england32]

Mozambique

Bricklayer is rough as fuck..

[@davestinson5691]

The base of that crane looks sketcy. How does it not tip over. I didn't they moved on rails

[@contemporaryrailwayscenes8125]

German company Liebherr made tower cranes that move on rails. If you've ever watched the series Aug Weidershein you'll see a few on the site.

[@ernieforrest7218]

the images seen in the video have nothing to do with house building in the 70s or any other era.

[@manofweed1]

Now you need a degree in environmental BS. The actual building of the house comes secondary !

[@TheRealSuperJ]

Every one of these guys would answer to Mack

[@marilynmerritt8235]

Or mick or pat

[@Prhbuild]

Next came straw walls , concrete slab pre fab , more Bullshit ( do you want the house or not as there's many people waiting)con

[@olivercollins8185]

What a hard slog all day for sweet f all

[@Erman456]

Old ☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@CableWrestler]

The lack of PPE and health and safety is concerning

[@melciveng]

CableWrestler I was surprised to see the concretors wearing hard hats

[@stevegreen9460]

thay got gloves and hats, its not that bad, just no hi vis. hi vis is getting out of hand now anyway, too much of it. see bloody people walking the dog sunday moring waring frigging hi vis ffs. common scence used to be the best form of health and safety now its a money grabbing racket.

[@coggsy3036]

Don’t forget the H&S act at work had only started one year before this was made. Lucky to have a hard hat on

[@kevocos]

Get the Hagen Diaz out and get back to bed princess

[@stevenferrier3505]

Bet ur the sort of little maggot that goes around taking names, wee fanny!!!

[@nickw22689]

What the fck sort of brickwork is that?!

[@driveheronman4304]

Gone are the days when you could actually get stuck in making progress now its health n safety tape every where for the new generation 😒 brains must be slightly different 🤷‍♂️ I'm 81 and still running my tarmacadam company sad most of the people in this video are probably dead anyway 😢

[@driveheronman4304]

@@Gg1118dieo the problem is no body my time got handed money for free we worked or went hungry, now you just line up at the social hall like a soft boy with no hands to scratch your self and let office working tax payers work for ya

[@gunsafetydwightarm5564]

ThE gOoD oLd DaYs🥴

[@__________6597]

1970 have Caterpillar = 2021 bit economy House is stop from 2006 in Italy. Is no logic

[@Mickyvandevenlover67]

Murphys

[@RobertPointer-nb9ot]

No ridiculous hard hats!!!!

[@AnguishedMan]

This music creepy

[@Hugh_Bastards675]

Your not kidding its depressing as fuck

[@scofiannyy2747]

Look, when house was builded good!!??!?!?!

[@darrenfarrell-bn2cb]

That’s When Men were Men and turkeys Chewed Tobacco,

[@stickshaker101]

They forgot to build a house!

[@mollyfilms]

They were built crap then and are worse today.

[@ozzyfan7299]

Not a single Mexican

[@AnguishedMan]

Yup

[@pcno2832]

Why would a Mexican travel 7,000 miles to work in the rain?

[@andreasberg3535]

Vergesst es einfach

[@dannylynch2149]

Germany

[@red-pn8fk]

if it is its an English or Irish brickie with that trowel. 1975 would be about right

[@pauldunneska]

@@red-pn8fk More than likely Irish with the Irish company Murphy.

[@rob20452]

I remember the Irish wearing the suit jackets and boiling the kettle on small fires for tea called them moles with shovels, couldn't understand their chat then spoke so quick, ii respected them for the back strength,.

[@niallcosgrove5596]

The brick work is awful

[@ask3xd903]

These era homes are garbage. Poor concrete, home designs, plumbing and electrical. I understand times were different back then, but the house we owned fron 1920 was better thought out and built.

[@belltond1527]

Well this is the UK not America

[@shahalamgaming2305]

Not really much different from now adays

[@heathstjohn6775]

Poor, suffering humanity.

[@simonnelson7770]

That music is awful and doesn't go with the film at all

[@robertclark4929]

Foreign.

[@pauldunneska]

Irish.

[@DenzelLN936]

Shite

[@johndorazio2400]

These guys are dead now

[@russchadwell]

And, a mighty big house it is

[@pauldunneska]

Apartment block.

[@russchadwell]

@@pauldunneska Right. But the title exclaims "house" for some odd reason. So I posted a sort of snarky comment about it seeming to be a bit big of a so called house, see?