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I'd forgotten that my dad had worked for Kaymet in the 80's, until his retirement, but seeing those trays brought back a flash of memory from visiting their factory as a kid. Bit of a surprise to see it here!
Ghostface | 19.09.17 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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It’s these types of post, which keep me coming back.
Pure vintage DG the mundane made interesting, a quirky look at a city.
Trays and clocks not my everyday interests, but DG makes it all come alive.
IMO blog still needs kittens.
Michael | 19.09.17 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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I think on a previous open house I went to James Nye's house in West Norwood*. Everything behind the Edwardian facade was falling apart when he bought it, so the extensive rebuilding makes for something architecturally interesting. There's a glass floor to see the basement of master clocks, one of which runs all the clocks in the house and one in the garden.
* I went to the Clock House. It was a private residence filled with master clocks in West Norwood. I have to assume it was his.
Robert | 19.09.17 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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The Clockworks is brilliant, I visited during Open House last year. One of those amazing on-the-doorstep discoveries that OH helps reveal.
They have done a great job on the recent restoration of the nearby clock at St Luke's on Norwood Rd, that had been out of action for several years.
It's really nice to see it working again.
AussieJimbo | 19.09.17 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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You chose to go to a couple of venues I had marked down but diddn't get to in the end. I did spend rather a long time sitting in a clock tower elsewhere chatting to the old geezer wot maintained the clock. It was completely fascinating and, all the more so, as old chappy was in his eighties and still keen to see to it that 'his' clock was still keeping good time.
B | 19.09.17 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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Nice to see the businesses on Old Kent Road are fighting back. While I know we need more housing I find the obliteration of small local businesses by regeneration and then gentrification immensely depressing.
At some point someone will realise that such destruction is madness. People need to be able to work locally and to shop in cheap / affordable local shops. We can't all afford to eat in bistros and buy from poncey "artisan" bakeries. We also need local traders to support all that new housing and we don't want to be forcing people to commute for miles to work rather than being able to walk or cycle there from their homes.
PC | 19.09.17 - 12:39 p.m. | #
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Gosh, we have a couple of trays at home that looks suspiciously like ribbed Kaymet trays. Probably 1960s vintage, passed on by the parents-in-law. I'll have a look for a label. Still going strong when newer plastic ones are falling to pieces.
Andrew | 19.09.17 - 4:00 p.m. | #
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Oh dear. The wife has just asked me what I am doing and I replied, "Reading an article about trays."
I started explaining but I realised I was in a hole and stopped digging.
Chris | 19.09.17 - 8:44 p.m. | #
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I can only echo other comments - this is a wonderful post, you make what might sound a dull subject in fact be very interesting. It's lovely to hear about these small businesses.
Jon Combe | 20.09.17 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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