http://www.thesootbuster.co.uk
Markfield Lodge, Markfield Lane
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE9 9FH
Tel. 01455 828967
I grew up in the mining valleys of South Wales where coal fires were our only source of heating. We burned dirty coal and chimney fires were a regular spectacle. Luckily my grandfather, who worked in the mines, was the street sweep and our chimney was regularly cleaned. I used to watch him sweeping our two flues and when I was around ten years old I began helping him, both at home and down the street. He never sent me up the chimney, thank heavens, but my first job was to blow a whistle outside in the street when the brush appeared through the top of the chimney. Over time I progressed to sweeping alongside him and then on my own. However, when I was eighteen I left the valleys for the student life and spent the subsequent forty years teaching and didn't sweep again. When I retired from teaching I wanted a second career that would be completely different to my first one and it's no surprise that I decided to revisit my youth and become a full time sweep. I was conscious that things have moved on in the sweeping business and was impressed with the training and ethos of the Guild of Master Sweeps, so I enrolled with them to become a fully trained member; which was rather like being a sexagenarian apprentice.
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