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Old 03-10-20, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Keith Blakeman View Post
On BBC2 tonight featured a piece about die pressing and stamping carried out in Birmingham in the late 1800’s. Well worth a watch on the iPlayer if only to see what a dangerous trade it was (and Alice Roberts of course).
Interesting to see the name "Fattorini" over the factory, workers suffered from repetitive strain injury as part and parcel of the job, I suppose it was better than the workhouse, how times have changed . . !

Rob
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