Working as a bricklayer in the 1940's

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Huntleyarchives.com Film No. 1751
Postman, trolley bus (612). Building post war block of flats. He gets tools out, cement mixer, lift, lays bricks, lever, architect's plans different patterns, tea break, apprentices, trade college, pay day, suburbia, high street.
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@muckle8 4 ай бұрын

Rock up as casual AF , no orange nonsense to garb , all good blokes , all helping each other to make the end result as good as possible - we have lost more than we’ve gained .

@martinsmith6049 4 ай бұрын

We have gained tens of thousands of Bozzos.

@matthewlittle1085 4 ай бұрын

But some top camera men 😂

@Candokettlebells 3 ай бұрын

Well said !!

@dnorfed 4 ай бұрын

I remember when a lot of guys in the building trade wore old suit jackets and trousers, usually an old suit, and the surprising thing was that these brickies rarely had any mortar droppings on his shoes, not boots, but always shoes those days, my old bricklaying partner was exactly one of these men, he even wore a shirt and tie. Today’s men wouldn’t be able to cope with those days now

@edgarbeat2851 3 ай бұрын

My brother is an amazing bricklayer to keep the faith in some men he is one of the best. I'm a mechanic always never thought much of bricklayers. I left to go to art college stain glass artist. When I needed some work, I laboured for him a few years whilst I learned glass. To work my bro and help has been fantastic. Nothing but total respect for Brick layers as creative as any artist. Plus I have learned loads. I still help from time to time when he needs extra help. He's 40 I'm 39 all I have has bean earned by graft. 👍

@denhaagtrader8781 Ай бұрын

Well done. Hard work pays off @@edgarbeat2851

@ekspatriat 3 ай бұрын

My dad was a brickkie from 40's to the 80's. He went through a 3 year apprentiship and had a full set of 'Bricklayer Encyclopedia'. He worked hard and was not paid when weather interfered. Also he was on a 'Piece Rate'. On saturday mornings he did extra for mates etc. and I laboured for him in the late 70s...a 'fiver' for that. Straight down the pub on sat night and I had earned it.

@richarddixon9606 4 ай бұрын

Rumour has it The Traditional Bricklayer has this on repeat.

@liamwalters5029 4 ай бұрын

He’s in it , he’s was 50 then 😂

@jeztickles4361 4 ай бұрын

😂 he’s always asked to go back on this site to teach the bricklayers how it’s done

@dragonfitter 4 ай бұрын

He is so in the closet he is in Narnia

@GRS1903 4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@agnosticevolutionist3567 4 ай бұрын

Funny

@ScratchyBaws Ай бұрын

My dad was an ok bricklayer and my friend laid bricks from 13yrs old to 58yrs old, my friend would build pillars and then smash/knock them about afterwards to get them to look level. He used to lose his rag when i called him a cowboy. Self taught from his bricklaying father and laying for 35yrs still never made him a proper qualified bricklayer/tradesman like these guys from 80yrs ago.

@bucko321 3 ай бұрын

Tool theft was probably unheard of, back in Jack Ellis's day. A lot of bricklayers I met during the 1970s were mostly Herbert's from council estates.

@markevans7269 4 ай бұрын

The way they just stack the bricks out .look better then the houses and walls they build today took pride 😊 in there work back then not like today 🙄

@tomthumb1769 3 ай бұрын

What are you talking about. You still got rough cowboys work back then nothing has changed. I’m a bricklayer of 34 years and let me tell you some of the old houses I have worked on from period are absolutely shocking. But people that don’t know shit about building always say they were built better back then. Absolute rubbish no dpc no insulation poor foundations for just a start.

@markevans7269 3 ай бұрын

You a cow boy brickie😂

@johnparinellojr.2035 Жыл бұрын

Watching this never gets old, however it’s all 12inch cinder blocks instead of bricks we have saws to make cuts and instead of chisels. It would be cool to hop in a time machine and spend a month working with those guys.

@paulwatts1704 4 ай бұрын

Skill levels twice that of today .. my father did a 7 yr apprenticeship as a bricklayer in the 50's and his skills and quality of work were very impressive. He was often asked by bricklayers in the 80's to help them with complex jobs they did not have the training to do.

@Korvintage64 4 ай бұрын

Like the two week plumbing courses letting 'unqualified irks' install full central heating systems.

@Enochthegreat71 4 ай бұрын

7yrs? Nah.

@andyg3 4 ай бұрын

@@Enochthegreat71 a proper apprentiship isn't done over night

@Enochthegreat71 4 ай бұрын

@@andyg3 times change! work methods change, my father did five yr apprentiship me 3yr, nobody cares about setting out bullseyes or fancy arches anymore all yesteryear.

@dnorfed 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like my old partner reg bridge, he was exactly like that, he’s been gone 10 years this month, I miss that old fella every day

@aussie8114 4 ай бұрын

My dad was awarded top apprentice in my state.

@SuperJimbell 4 ай бұрын

A proud son.

@blissy1 4 ай бұрын

Number of different trades plasters, painters, carpenters and scaffolders, and to bring it in line to modern standards ‘Cowboys’

@Enochthegreat71 4 ай бұрын

Bricklaying since 1995, just all about speed, quality shocking! this is the modern day monster.😢

@gmc9451 3 ай бұрын

I'm not a bricklayer but when I look at new-build there's no denying a lack of quality in both the quality of the materials and the workmanship. I doubt they'll still be standing in 100+ years.

@michaeladams2644 4 ай бұрын

My grandfather used to cycle up to 15 miles him and a labourer would lay up to 1500 bricks a day then cycle home , have dinner then down the pub for a couple of pints and a game dominos 😂 and they weren't on anywhere near 70p a brick😢 they were a different breed

@ScratchyBaws Ай бұрын

Bullshite, no way would your wee grandpappy lay 1500 a day everyday. Maybe 1500 bricks on the pi55 without a level or line etc etc.

@barry5138 14 күн бұрын

Modern brickie ain't coming home to a clean house or a dinner........

@Hunter-gq9er 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant video thank you for sharing 👍

@AnthonyHigham6414001080 4 ай бұрын

You can't beat a good brickies labourer. I've seen them arrive early set out the bricks and blocks, knock up mortar and have it laid out on "spot" boards just the right height for the brickies and all ready when they arrive. Then they supply materials all day and stay behind to tidy up the site. A good labourer can keep two bricklayers going all day and actually earn more money than the brickies. A bad labourer will get a lot of abuse if he holds up the work.

@michaelburley2905 3 ай бұрын

A Labourer will never earn more than the brickies but good ones are like rocking horse shit to find these days

@spgranorthiam123 3 ай бұрын

I worked as brickies labourer. 70s/ 80s never earnt' the same as brickies, they. always earn twice what I earned, they were never satisfied muck to wet to dry, bricks to far away, so it went on, you got the sack for just about any thing, so what you made in good money you lost looking for work, no health and safety if you didn't, like if, you just fck off I use hod carry bricks and mortar, engineering bricks were killers, I could go on for ever, but we didn't know any thing better,@@michaelburley2905

@Tootrue5743 3 ай бұрын

2 good brickies and a good labourer who could point and joint often worked "even split" 1/3 rd each on piece work.

@michaelburley2905 3 ай бұрын

@@Tootrue5743 usually 35 35 30 split

@twoblue7329 2 жыл бұрын

£7, and five shillings a good week ,wonder what he would have made of the £350,000.00 pounds a week of a professional footballer today

@anthonystorey2953 3 ай бұрын

As a brickie from the age of 15 until I had had enough I could watch this and enjoy it , but what makes my piss itch is seeing a politician in his shirt sleeves " having a go " and after laying possibly 3 bricks he hands back the trowel, has anyone told these charlatans that they only need to lay another 497 bricks that day to earn a living wage , no expenses or soft leather seats for any brickies I know!

@ColoradoCarrolls 7 ай бұрын

No wonder all the kids looked like milkman, Dad was leaving and every door had a milkman coming in

@TheDruzza 7 ай бұрын

Hahahaha true

@ivortoad 3 ай бұрын

Milkman would keep his strength up by supping the cream out of Gold Top then making a hole in the lid with his cashbook pencil. The Tits got the blame.

@jocktigernuts680 4 ай бұрын

I was a 15 year old apprentice in the 60s and lost all the skin on my fingers trying to pick up frozen bricks, much to the delight of the sick 💩’s I was supposed to look up to as my mentors🥶

@philipmilner9638 4 ай бұрын

The trouble these days - no one wants to do manuel jobs, they all want to go to university, and have lots of money. Then youths wonder why there's no houses for them. It's not rocket science, learn out how to build them. I blame Tony Blair and New Labour.

@freebeerfordworkers 4 ай бұрын

Yes they collect degrees in all sorts of things that don't relate to any job they do. I went to a technical college and in my final exam there were compulsory questions and the choice of two or three other questions. if you didn't do it right you failed - end of. My brother went to a good university and he was told if he'd done his coursework he didn't need to worry too much about the final exam.

@MinotaurvsCyclops 4 ай бұрын

Not relevant. Too difficult to get building plans approved.

@azzzza1045 3 ай бұрын

Irony is there’s lots of money for well skilled manual labour now, and their prices will only rise too

@martinsmith6049 4 ай бұрын

Those apprentice bricklayers look nice.

@slaneysider106 3 ай бұрын

I was on a site recently. There was a bricklayer who was in his early 30's who layed 1200 bricks in a day . Started at 7 and finished at 5 . One euro a brick. He could lay 650 4" solid blocks a day at euro and 50 cents. Im on the buildings 30 years and never seen anyone as fast as him.

@user-jy8mo5fi5q 4 ай бұрын

I wish the film owners would put their logo in one of the corners instead of the centre of the screen

@dissyduster 4 ай бұрын

England all over now,,,

@johnsmiths9682 3 ай бұрын

And just look at the state of the bricklayers and the work they produce now, hardly a decent one to be found

@steveh6373 3 ай бұрын

Hard work in the winter

@Korvintage64 4 ай бұрын

Plenty of work for the brickies after 1939.........

@Mr.1.i 2 ай бұрын

I bet it take me allday to lay about 20bricks hard to beleive he only got £7 for 32hours work

@scottlewis7893 4 ай бұрын

Class

@michaelcotton928 4 ай бұрын

, we haven't got the skill today. Just a few of us left you can lay the Accrington, stock 75 less water in the mix less no more than five courses

@callmedave7698 3 ай бұрын

No one is using their mobile phones the good old days 😊

@anthonybutto1925 Жыл бұрын

No wonder, mum complained, I couldn't put on a kilogram, for this reason. I could go back, to do it all again, but this time, you need tech skills to know how to use the internet to open a business these days.

@freebeerfordworkers 4 ай бұрын

where are the hod carriers? I think the gangs used to be two and one, two brickies to one hod carrier and the carrier got the same as the brickies. There was a joke in the building trade in the 60's if you saw Rolls Royce you said, ah a hod carrier on his way home. I've heard a good brickie could lay 1000 a day but they were few and far between.

@brendanlea3605 3 ай бұрын

Number of bricks laid is down to the conditions. Good supply of bricks and muck, decent scaffold, and if you had special features, corners, or windows and doors to deal with

@markunsworth2364 4 ай бұрын

Happy Jack

@cricketbatguitar 4 ай бұрын

Muck up!!

@nazmulslater8398 7 жыл бұрын

no ppe no hard hat, gloves

@bristolguy100 7 жыл бұрын

there was no hard hat, golves or ppe even in the 1980s

@mikejames4271 5 ай бұрын

and no mardarses.

@freebeerfordworkers 4 ай бұрын

And often no scaffold, working overhand from inside the building with just trestles and planks

@user-ox2mz8ds7g 4 ай бұрын

About £1.30 for a long days work.

@Madmedic6073 4 ай бұрын

Any complex brick wall now is made from fibreglass which is then made to look real and just stuck in place, plus any chance it is going to rain the bricklayers are the first ones in the cars and off the building site quicker than 💩off a shovel…..

@incognito9941 4 ай бұрын

Jack just strolls out and closes the gate behind the postman 🖕

@boldertash 4 ай бұрын

Muck up

@wallacegrommet3479 4 ай бұрын

Watermark too big, can’t watch

@JD-wn3cc 3 ай бұрын

When they didn't turn up to work totally coked-up

@sidmac9071 4 ай бұрын

Oi stretchers on my head sun was a common saying that was it was that it was

@megajohnson1984 3 ай бұрын

Glad it’s not common now because nothing you said makes sense 😂

@regjenkinson6247 4 ай бұрын

Lays a brick to the line then plumbs it up with level what the fxxk is all that about

@twarog6825 4 ай бұрын

lol jack up at 11 and have another start by 12 walk off that and another start at 2 lol the good old days

@adeh503 3 ай бұрын

Now its just Eastern Europeans and their Disney land qualification papers fkn everything up

@LarryFogarty 4 ай бұрын

now its early in the morning.you wont see them going to work..but later to the dole office

@red84icj 4 ай бұрын

Wonder how everyones mental elf was on this site. Asking for stu crompton huns

@jonharry6293 4 ай бұрын

Harry Enfield

@stillasgoodasnew 4 ай бұрын

Not really changed much

@terrybarton8388 4 ай бұрын

So he goes to work without any lunch bag?

@MinotaurvsCyclops 4 ай бұрын

Buys it from the canteen

@philwise872 4 ай бұрын

Line looked a bit slack

@ivortoad 3 ай бұрын

Proper wobbly ladders not like your modern rubbish

@davedavids2231 8 ай бұрын

600 pound a week in todays money. 2023. Shocking

@hod2116 4 ай бұрын

But you didn't have the things to spend money on in those days not even home phones most had a radio no tv

@cliveramsbotty6077 4 ай бұрын

guaranteed 32 hour weekly wage regardless though. day work but bonus for bricks laid. plus canteen on site.

@davedavids2231 4 ай бұрын

@@cliveramsbotty6077 yeah they had it right off 🙄

@anoshya 4 ай бұрын

Little obesity

@Kingtrollface259 4 ай бұрын

Still on £250 a day😂

@beakofthesouth2666 4 ай бұрын

2 brickys 4 hoddys

@boldertash 4 ай бұрын

Bricklayers,,,,, the one's that weren't clever enough to be Carpenters

@rabmcleod3508 4 ай бұрын

Yeah but Ive been a Carpenter for 35 years and the Brickies earn a lot more than I can now.

@christinapankey1415 4 ай бұрын

Back when Americans were awesome

@kingsrd1 4 ай бұрын

They're English

@m101ist 4 ай бұрын

This is in London.

@Klown84 4 ай бұрын

They work at a snails pace! You would get fired these days for being too slow. The quality is not as good either, todays brickie is far superior 👍

@williamorchard16 3 ай бұрын

No guaranteed hours, no afternoon break, no subsidised canteen, and work a lot quicker than those guys

@ronnierobinson1502 4 ай бұрын

Shite work quality

@scottlewis7893 4 ай бұрын

Yo couldn’t do it what they was doing at the time !

@cliveramsbotty6077 4 ай бұрын

the video is poor quality mate

@kingsrd1 4 ай бұрын

Talking bollocks mate, them little boys are better than you can do

@terryjones6026 4 ай бұрын

A bricklayer with a plumb rule all the bricklayers and carpenters had them when i started as an apprentice bricklayer

@ekspatriat 3 ай бұрын

Explain or shut it.

@goldentrowel1968 Жыл бұрын

What was the style of hat hes wearing, Is a newsboy hat ?