Bradford man David Smith used to clean stone buildings.
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00:00And you used to be a stern cleaner here in Bradford, so was that all this old stern that you'd clean?
00:06Some of it, some of it, different companies, different bits, you know, so I worked for a company that we used to specialise in chemicals rather than sand, just sand got all over the place, chemicals went straight down the drain, you know.
00:22Wow, so what kind of buildings have you cleaned?
00:30I worked on Salts Mill, I worked on Salts Mill at the end, when they were just finishing it off, Ellentown Centre, anywhere really, where the centres were, off we went.
00:44What's the most impressive place do you think you've cleaned?
00:49Down by Lord's Cricket Ground in London.
00:52And what do you think about the state of buildings today?
00:55You just need restoring, that's all, but an Irish-trained skill set to do that, you know, I think they're all working on York Ministers, for instance, at the moment, it's a proper storm merchant.
01:07But that's what you need, a storm merchant.
01:10Just to restore it, because they don't get weathered and battered and what have you, you know.
01:14But they can be restored, it probably doesn't work around the country, there's various things that can be done, you know.
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