Danny M. Email & Phone Number

Four score and seven years ago, well perhaps not that long ago, I learned a craft colloquially named plumbing. Although to be fair, plumbing does have a very long historical span. The earliest article I remember reading on what might be considered 'the modern plumber' was written by the historian J.D. Chambers in 1949, when he discussed the eminent and well-respected engineer Sir Thomas Hawksley. In this article, Chambers extolled the virtues of Hawksley and stated that 'His [Hawksley's] contribution lay in the ingenuity which he applied to overcoming the problems of plumbing . . . and above all, in the patience he brought to bear on the still more intractable problem of persuading plumbers to carry out his instructions'. Credit to https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/learning/healthhousing/theme2/hawksley.aspxMoving swiftly to today's plumbers, I still think 'we' still have that endearing 'intractable' quality.