Astramax
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Must have some age to it due to the Birds Custard tin making up the height beneath the decorative top finial.
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Must have some age to it due to the Birds Custard tin making up the height beneath the decorative top finial.
It already has the lemon!Just needs a bit of lemon and vinegar
and yet you mock the time I am taking with mine. My lamp will be as new once I have finished with it. I am the true savior of the lamp. Giver of life and restoration god.You can't put a price history, and the time devoted to the restoration of history is rewarded with a deep satisfaction that money cannot replace, the toil devoted is a gift to future generations and the world of lamps itself.
Beautiful isn't it
and yet you mock the time I am taking with mine. My lamp will be as new once I have finished with it. I am the true savior of the lamp. Giver of life and restoration god.
Well Alan, As it came to pass that these lamps are no more, I look down at my refurbished light as master of all heritage lamp refurbishers and I thought it good.Apologies for mocking, it looked like you were slacking for a bit there, saviors of history like yourself need to set an example of industrious devotion to the craft, the Victorian man that made that worked 16 hours per day, 6 days a week, as a savior of history you should work as they did, you must walk in their shoes.
Well Alan, As it came to pass that these lamps are no more, I look down at my refurbished light as master of all heritage lamp refurbishers and I thought it good.
I find it incredible that in our lifetime there is someone who remembers the lamp lighters. Even more incredible that there was such a job and people did it. can you imagine trying to recruit a lamp lighter nowadays?
Times have changed for the better technology wise, unfortunately along the way we have lost the very traditions of what made us great. The grit and determination of a hard days work has been kicked out of us and easy street is being sought at every opportunity. Traditional values meant something back in the day along with pride.We flick a switch and take instant light for granted, when something goes wrong we phone a spark, our grandparents remember a time without those conveniences, they lit lamps fueled by whale oil and worked every hour god sent or starved, yet give little thought to it.
Times have changed for the better technology wise, unfortunately along the way we have lost the very traditions of what made us great. The grit and determination of a hard days work has been kicked out of us and easy street is being sought at every opportunity. Traditional values meant something back in the day along with pride.
Possibly if they have never known anything other than everything handed to them on a plate then a days hard graft would appear very old fashioned to them. A bit like sending kids up chimneys, we dont do that anymore. But tradition and pride in work has long been lost to fast money, do as little as possible for maximum proffit. I suppose it works for some but there is something to be said for a days work for a days pay. Gives you a sense of purpose.
Why I am putting so much time and effort into my lamp. Lest we forgetPhysical work and exercise have reduced in recent years, and mental health issues have risen by much the same.
I was at an old estate recently, the gate at the back was the workers entrance, it has a gate for livestock and an L shaped gap built into the wall for workers to get in without opening the gate, I'm not that big and I had to squeeze through it, bit narrow I thought, so I asked, apparently Victorian people were much smaller and thinner, fitter and stronger, they worked 16 hour days and didn't have supermarkets.
They built Britain, we are living off the lard, we moan, they were proud, we want shiny cars, they had a bike, they worked for a better country, we just live in it and don't give them a thought.