“Architects never really realise they’ve got to be cleaned after they put them up.”
The introduction of the squeegee and the applicator revolutionised window cleaning, but the passing of the Health and Safety Act in 1974 and the rapidly changing face of London’s architecture provides plenty of new challenges for window cleaners across London. With the big companies taking on the skyscrapers and smaller companies using more traditional methods nearer to the ground, Nationwide’s Glyn Worsnip becomes a “tumbler” (rookie window cleaner) to see how it’s done.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on 3 March, 1980.
Credit to : BBC Archive
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