Diary of a Decorator (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2012-05-31
Förlag
Memoirs Publishing
Illustrationer
Illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 16 mm
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409 g
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1
ISBN
9781909020313

Diary of a Decorator

The Story of FWA - Builders & Decorators to the Royal Household, and Probably the World's Most Successful Painting Contractors

av Colin Douglas-Fairhurst
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-05-31
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In the years after the Second World War Colin Douglas-Fairhurst turned the modest decorating business founded by his father into a national leader in the field. FWA, as it became known, won contracts to repaint many of Britain's most prominent buildings, from Buckingham Palace to Waterloo Station and from Hammersmith Bridge to the National Gallery. Along the way Colin raised a family, saw the world, owned and drove more than 70 cars and had a great deal of fun amid all the hard work. This is the story of his life, his family and his business.
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Colin Douglas-Fairhurst was born in the year his father set up a pioneering painting business, and the smell of paint and the noise of the spraying equipment pervaded his young life. In 1959, after a sojourn working and living in New Zealand and completing two periods of National Service in the Royal New Zealand Artillery and back home in the Royal Air Force, he joined his father's small decorating business. His dedication to his work soon resulted in the firm gaining a series of large public sector contracts including Windsor Castle and later, Buckingham Palace. By the 1970s Colin was controlling a flourishing group of companies in the decorating and building field. Thanks to careful planning, in 2006 he was able to pass the business into good hands and take life a little easier.

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Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction - the origins of FWA Chapter 1 One sat on a time Page 1 Chapter 2 To the other side of the world Page 33 Chapter 3 Joining the family business Page 57 Chapter 4 Family matters Page 71 Chapter 5 Travelling for business and pleasure Page 91 Chapter 6 Achievement and innovation Page 117 Chapter 7 A flourishing business Page 130 Chapter 8 Trading at home and overseas Page 171 Chapter 9 Tragedy and triumph Page 195 Chapter 10 Subsidiaries and skulduggery Page 219 Chapter 11 Gibraltar adventure Page 243 Chapter 12 The sale of FWA Page 254 Postscript Working wives, and other matters Page 269

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