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BTJ was a great magazine in its day but 1982 was not its day. I think it was still a paid for magazine (you had to buy it at a newsagents) but the days when it sold a hundred thousand copies under the rather wonderful title Illustrated Carpenter and Builder were long gone. Circulation was down to under 30k and the magazine's main purpose, the estimating section, was probably being superceded by technology. However, I didn't stay there for long.