05-11-2020, 12:14 AM
Just to show how things changed this is a photo of the apprentices where I "Did My Time" taken in 1971.
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As you can see everyone was very well dressed!
Actually the person in the barrow would have just completed his apprenticeship and it was traditional to cover them in anything unpleasant you could find including oil, engineer's blue and even handfuls of raw asbestos.
Klinger Apprentices 1971.jpg (Size: 83.72 KB / Downloads: 139)
As you can see everyone was very well dressed!
Actually the person in the barrow would have just completed his apprenticeship and it was traditional to cover them in anything unpleasant you could find including oil, engineer's blue and even handfuls of raw asbestos.