Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. And now let us sing of mousetraps and flypaper, nails and screws, buckets and plant plugs, the extraordinary miscellany of goods displayed in every right-thinking ironmongery. On leaving Oxford he went to work as a reporter at the Slough Observer and the Slough Evening Mail before joining the BBC in 1978 where he worked in the BBC Radio newsroom in London for 22 years.

Fort appeals to the craftsman in every reader from the position of a fellow traveller on the journey to accomplishment, perhaps never to arrive. Alongside this, it presents a fascinating history of technological development; from who thought of screwdrivers to where the spirit level came from, who devised the process of galvanisation and what genius worked out that a suction pad on the end of a piece of wood could unblock sinks. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.

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Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice.He took early retirement in 2000, just before the publication of his social history of lawns and lawn-mowing, The Grass is Greener. And Fort takes the reader on a journey through an account of the history of the rivets, trivets, galvanised buckets, lightbulbs, mousetraps, hammers, rawlplugs, sandpapers, oils, kitchenware and plants that make up its inventory.

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The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited.So: not for those who want a cosy thriller, but for all who like to add to their knowledge - have a go. Married to this personal story will be Tom's history of home ownership and how it nourished pride in the home and the desire to make the home better and more beautiful, and how technological progress in the mass production of tools and materials made it easy to realise - or attempt to realise - those ambitions. This is Tom Fort’s British riposte, written as a member of a family that runs such an establishment in his little Oxfordshire village.