Barry Bucknell
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Barry Bucknell (January 26, 1912–February 21, 2003) was a BBC TV presenter who popularised Do It Yourself (DIY) in the United Kingdom.
Bucknell served an apprenticeship with Daimler, after which he joined his father's building and electrical firm in St Pancras, London.
In the 1950s he presented the series "Barry Bucknell's Do It Yourself" which attracted seven million viewers. The Programmes were presented live and, despite rehearsing his projects at home with his wife timing him, occasionally resulted in on-screen mishaps with Bucknell saying "This is how not to do it!".
The 1962 series "Bucknell's House" followed a 39-week BBC project renovating a house in Ealing.
From the mid-1960s on he became increasingly involved in sailing and he and Jack Holt designed the popular Mirror Dinghy. He also designed a two-man canoe for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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- Whirligig TV website
- "Making the Moderm World" website of The Science Museum
