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Ever since I was a lad I have been fascinated about the wealth of detail contained in the four volumes of Audels Carpenters and Builders Guide owned by my father. In his earlier years he was a carpenter and treasured these volumes. I was never a carpenter (but did once build a sailing dingy). Nevertheless I have regularly come back to pondering the detailed description of old, sound skills contained in these volumes.
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I am interested in old skills and old values and to this end I am digitising some books related to Victorian skills and values.
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So far I have completed the Laws of the Navy a set of poems written by by Admiral Ronald Hopwood, C.B. entitled `The Laws of the Navy and Other Poems'. These poems have lessons for us about `The Old Way' - values, principles and practices we would do well to remember today.
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<nowiki>... the breeze has spoken strangers, with a stirring tale to tell,
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And a thousand eager voices flung the challenge out to sea:
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"Come they hither in the old way, in the only way that's free?"
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And the flying Breeze called softly: "In the old way . . ."</nowiki>
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I am working on `The Household Oracle - A Popular Referee on All Subjects of Household Enquiry' edited by Alfred H Miles. It is presented as a fascinating insight into the running of middle class household in Victorian England at the end of the 1800's.
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The material in the associated pages (see the `Household Oracle Index') is scanned and reformatted from a handbook entitled
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`The Household Oracle aims to be a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry' - A.H.M.
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For many years I have worked on Enquire Within, a software programme I developed which is designed to help elicit people's personal constucts using the repertory grid process developed George Kelly, an American engineer turned psychologist. It is a difficult process to use well but Enquire Within provides a great deal of help and guidance, by the way it is designed, to ensure effective and ethical application. The Enquire Within site provides a great deal of background and practical application material.
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My personal belief is that Repertory Grid has power to make a real difference for good in the world.
  
I decided that the material would be of immense value to people all over the world who were interested in historic restoration, renovating houses built in the first half of the 20th century and earlier and that the power of the web would enable that information to be shared. Converting all the information available to a web format will be an immense task which I may not be able to complete but here is a start. I hope you find it useful. If you have any comment you can make it at the comment page.
 
  
In converting the text to web format I decided that the information was more important than the original formatting and layout. I have therefore, in the interests of easier understanding, abandoned most of the formatting and layout of the original document while, I hope, respecting the intentions of the original publishers. I have tried to more closely associate the diagrams with the text, again to aid understanding, and I have corrected any typographical errors I have discovered. If you note any errors please let me know and, if you have any suggestions for improvement I would like to hear them. Also, if you wish to suggest that I next work on a particular chapter I would be delighted to do my best to accommodate you.
 
  
 
I hope you enjoy browsing here and that the information is useful to those of you renovating houses.
 
I hope you enjoy browsing here and that the information is useful to those of you renovating houses.

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I am interested in old skills and old values and to this end I am digitising some books related to Victorian skills and values.

So far I have completed the Laws of the Navy a set of poems written by by Admiral Ronald Hopwood, C.B. entitled `The Laws of the Navy and Other Poems'. These poems have lessons for us about `The Old Way' - values, principles and practices we would do well to remember today.

... the breeze has spoken strangers, with a stirring tale to tell, And a thousand eager voices flung the challenge out to sea: "Come they hither in the old way, in the only way that's free?" And the flying Breeze called softly: "In the old way . . ."


I am working on `The Household Oracle - A Popular Referee on All Subjects of Household Enquiry' edited by Alfred H Miles. It is presented as a fascinating insight into the running of middle class household in Victorian England at the end of the 1800's.

The material in the associated pages (see the `Household Oracle Index') is scanned and reformatted from a handbook entitled

`The Household Oracle aims to be a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry' - A.H.M.


For many years I have worked on Enquire Within, a software programme I developed which is designed to help elicit people's personal constucts using the repertory grid process developed George Kelly, an American engineer turned psychologist. It is a difficult process to use well but Enquire Within provides a great deal of help and guidance, by the way it is designed, to ensure effective and ethical application. The Enquire Within site provides a great deal of background and practical application material.

My personal belief is that Repertory Grid has power to make a real difference for good in the world.


I hope you enjoy browsing here and that the information is useful to those of you renovating houses.

John

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