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@JeremyVineOn5 did you say pierce brosnan was American/Irish? I don’t think he is American.
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@simsgazette How can a driver concentrate on the job when this s*** is going on?
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The demise of British manufacturing....
Theme park to replace largest brick works in the world near #Bedford
1889 The London Brick company was founded and acquired land in Bedfordshire. There were already several brickyards throughout the county.
1936 Officially the largest brickworks in the world, employing over 2000 people and manufacturing 10 million bricks a week.
1983 Producing 20 million bricks per week with a pre-tax profit £26 million.
2008 Brick production ceased altogether, bringing large scale brick making in Bedfordshire to an end and halving UK brick production.
2019 UK now the largest importer of bricks in the world from Ireland Netherlands Spain Portugal France Turkey and China
2022 UK imported an estimated £135.8 million of bricks
2031 US owned #UniversalStudiosGB to open leisure park on the site of London Brick Company works
bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/CommunityHisto…
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@HylandIan Why do they promote it as NEW? I’m sure watched this a year ago…
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The Boomer Generation.
1946 to 1964.
The generation who didn't have it all.
The generation who played as children in the rubble of cities like London, Coventry and Plymouth, all heavily bombed in WW2. The rebuilding didn't start in earnest until the mid 1960s.
The generation who were often malnourished and suffered from rickets when they were children because food rationing didn't end until 1954.
The generation whose working classes lived in slum housing with no inside bathrooms. Whose baths were taken in tin tubs dragged once a week into kitchens, and the water shared by the rest of the family. Dad went last when the water was lukewarm and scummy.
The generation who started work at 15 or 16 and didn't get a chance at university. Unless you were posh.
The generation who didn't often own cars or TVs and who had two bar electric fires to heat the whole house. If they were lucky.
The generation whose womenfolk didn't have any form of equality in the workplace or in the divorce courts.
The generation who, if they were lucky, had a landline. But they shared it with the neighbours. And their furniture was hand me downs.
The Boomer Generation.
The generation who didn't have it all.
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@Matt_Pinner Ditch the boiled egg replace with fried and cook the sausages!
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