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My dad was an ok bricklayer and my friend laid bricks from 13yrs old to 58yrs old, my friend would build pillars and then smash/knock them about afterwards to get them to look level. He used to lose his rag when i called him a cowboy. Self taught from his bricklaying father and laying for 35yrs still never made him a proper qualified bricklayer/tradesman like these guys from 80yrs ago.

I bet it take me allday to lay about 20bricks hard to beleive he only got £7 for 32hours work

No one is using their mobile phones the good old days 😊

I was on a site recently. There was a bricklayer who was in his early 30's who layed 1200 bricks in a day . Started at 7 and finished at 5 . One euro a brick. He could lay 650 4" solid blocks a day at euro and 50 cents. Im on the buildings 30 years and never seen anyone as fast as him.

Yet with advances in technology and teaching today they can’t even built a wall in plumb

These houses that they are building were probably sold to working class families. Today, they are totally out of the price range of any such people, and are as likely to be part of a slum-king's "portfolio" as anything else; packed to the rafters with diversity.

Proper wobbly ladders not like your modern rubbish

Tool theft was probably unheard of, back in Jack Ellis's day. A lot of bricklayers I met during the 1970s were mostly Herbert's from council estates.

When they didn't turn up to work totally coked-up

Now its just Eastern Europeans and their Disney land qualification papers fkn everything up

My dad was a brickkie from 40's to the 80's. He went through a 3 year apprentiship and had a full set of 'Bricklayer Encyclopedia'. He worked hard and was not paid when weather interfered. Also he was on a 'Piece Rate'. On saturday mornings he did extra for mates etc. and I laboured for him in the late 70s...a 'fiver' for that. Straight down the pub on sat night and I had earned it.

The hardest thing when teaching a lad to lay brick is getting his eye in. Girls and women have a natural ability to see things that blokes just dont notice. Its been explained as a throwback to hunting, when men were chasing moving prey. That focus on tracking moving things means blokes aren't interested in static things. Whatever the reason, girls learn to be neat quicker.

And just look at the state of the bricklayers and the work they produce now, hardly a decent one to be found

Hard work in the winter

Difference between the old school bricklayers and new ones on RUclips old ones sent Buch of cunts 🙏god bless

As a brickie from the age of 15 until I had had enough I could watch this and enjoy it , but what makes my piss itch is seeing a politician in his shirt sleeves " having a go " and after laying possibly 3 bricks he hands back the trowel, has anyone told these charlatans that they only need to lay another 497 bricks that day to earn a living wage , no expenses or soft leather seats for any brickies I know!

Muck up!!

Happy Jack

Still on £250 a day😂

About £1.30 for a long days work.

Lays a brick to the line then plumbs it up with level what the fxxk is all that about

I wish the film owners would put their logo in one of the corners instead of the centre of the screen

I was a 15 year old apprentice in the 60s and lost all the skin on my fingers trying to pick up frozen bricks, much to the delight of the sick 💩’s I was supposed to look up to as my mentors🥶

They work at a snails pace! You would get fired these days for being too slow. The quality is not as good either, todays brickie is far superior 👍

You can't beat a good brickies labourer. I've seen them arrive early set out the bricks and blocks, knock up mortar and have it laid out on "spot" boards just the right height for the brickies and all ready when they arrive. Then they supply materials all day and stay behind to tidy up the site. A good labourer can keep two bricklayers going all day and actually earn more money than the brickies. A bad labourer will get a lot of abuse if he holds up the work.

Bricklayers,,,,, the one's that weren't clever enough to be Carpenters

Muck up

My dad was awarded top apprentice in my state.

Number of different trades plasters, painters, carpenters and scaffolders, and to bring it in line to modern standards ‘Cowboys’

My grandfather used to cycle up to 15 miles him and a labourer would lay up to 1500 bricks a day then cycle home , have dinner then down the pub for a couple of pints and a game dominos 😂 and they weren't on anywhere near 70p a brick😢 they were a different breed

Watermark too big, can’t watch

The way they just stack the bricks out .look better then the houses and walls they build today took pride 😊 in there work back then not like today 🙄

Those apprentice bricklayers look nice.

lol jack up at 11 and have another start by 12 walk off that and another start at 2 lol the good old days

Little obesity

I remember when a lot of guys in the building trade wore old suit jackets and trousers, usually an old suit, and the surprising thing was that these brickies rarely had any mortar droppings on his shoes, not boots, but always shoes those days, my old bricklaying partner was exactly one of these men, he even wore a shirt and tie. Today’s men wouldn’t be able to cope with those days now

Wonder how everyones mental elf was on this site. Asking for stu crompton huns

, we haven't got the skill today. Just a few of us left you can lay the Accrington, stock 75 less water in the mix less no more than five courses

England all over now,,,

Any complex brick wall now is made from fibreglass which is then made to look real and just stuck in place, plus any chance it is going to rain the bricklayers are the first ones in the cars and off the building site quicker than 💩off a shovel…..

where are the hod carriers? I think the gangs used to be two and one, two brickies to one hod carrier and the carrier got the same as the brickies. There was a joke in the building trade in the 60's if you saw Rolls Royce you said, ah a hod carrier on his way home. I've heard a good brickie could lay 1000 a day but they were few and far between.

So he goes to work without any lunch bag?

Line looked a bit slack

Harry Enfield

The trouble these days - no one wants to do manuel jobs, they all want to go to university, and have lots of money. Then youths wonder why there's no houses for them. It's not rocket science, learn out how to build them. I blame Tony Blair and New Labour.

Bricklaying since 1995, just all about speed, quality shocking! this is the modern day monster.😢

now its early in the morning.you wont see them going to work..but later to the dole office

Jack just strolls out and closes the gate behind the postman 🖕

Rock up as casual AF , no orange nonsense to garb , all good blokes , all helping each other to make the end result as good as possible - we have lost more than we’ve gained .

I thought it was black people that built this country?