Barraby Bucknell 1960s TV.

[Wayners]

This is interesting and amusing. Fair play to the guy. lived to a good age and a pioneer...
Robert "Barry" Barraby Bucknell was an English TV presenter who popularised Do It Yourself in the United Kingdom.

 

[Wayners]

I found it amusing how he was dressed. I remember old tradesmen dressed like the in the 80s
That's how men went dressed to a sunny beach

 

[fillyboy]

Interesting, I thought 'dot and dabbing' came in at least 30 years after that.

 

[fillyboy]

I found it amusing how he was dressed. I remember old tradesmen dressed like the in the 80s
That's how men went dressed to a sunny beach

I'd have been wiping my trowel with me tie.

 

[Deluks]

I wonder how many original solid panel doors have been mistakenly binned for being ugly, after having the hardboard treatment?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

This is interesting and amusing. Fair play to the guy. lived to a good age and a pioneer...
Robert "Barry" Barraby Bucknell was an English TV presenter who popularised Do It Yourself in the United Kingdom.

His main claim to fame, was of making character full doors, flush by facing them with a pinned on, sheet of hardboard.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I found it amusing how he was dressed. I remember old tradesmen dressed like the in the 80s
That's how men went dressed to a sunny beach

Not forgetting, the knotted hankie..
My dad always wore a tie, from the instant he got up on a morning, he wasn't dressed, without it, along with belt, and braces.