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Default Barry Bucknall: the Father of DIY

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:42:37 +0000, damduck-egg wrote:

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:06:45 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:12:04 PM UTC, Tim Streater wrote:
My dad hardboarded all our doors...
Why, FFS?


Panelled doors seen as old-fashioned and dust-collectors.


In my Grans case a couple were still damaged from debri bashing into
them in the Blitz , the OP mentioned the 70's but Bucknell started over
a decade before then.


I am pretty sure my dad did ours in the very early 1960s.

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