Hard Hat Way#LookUpHistory · by Stu Crompton
Look up.
Every town has one. A building somebody cut, carved and laid by hand, a hundred years or more before anyone had a power tool. Most of the men who built them never had their names written down anywhere. The buildings are still standing.
I’m a bricklayer. #LookUpHistory is me stood in front of those buildings, showing you what the trades did: the stone, the joints, the carving nobody on the ground was ever meant to see. That’s the standard Hard Hat Way is built on. Do the job properly, whether anyone’s watching or not.
Grand Hotel
Scarborough · 8 min read
Holker Hall
Cumbria · 5 min read
The old Mining & Technical College
Library Street, Wigan · 10 min read
The Building at 1-19 North Bridge
Edinburgh · 2 min read
School of art
Warrington · 3 min read
There’s more in the app
- Listen to every story, read out
- Get told the day a new building goes up
- Tick off the ones you’ve stood in front of
- Suggest a building in your town