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Post by redshank on May 8, 2024 13:11:14 GMT
Cramphorns Upminster about 1966 Seed merchants and Pet shop £5 pw, left after 2 months. Joined Times Newspapers Apprentice Electrotyper/Stereotyper £15pw, never looked back. They had a shop in Loughton High Road back in 1963, next to Brown's engineering works. Sold them some baby hamsters later that summer, think I got about 2/- for each An interesting shop even when young.Next to Lopping Hall,I took a pamphlet from Lopping Hall a few days ago I was surprised and delighted with what they put on.It seems to be well used. |
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Post by orientsc on May 8, 2024 15:47:17 GMT
My first job was as a farm hand at a dairy farm. The pay was good because the work was brutal. We bailed hay all day and took few breaks in the summer heat. At times we would take breaks to move dead adult Holstein Cows. My brother and I were in our early teens and the others working with us were adults and leathery. They would drink hot beer or Canadian Club in secret and smoke while they worked. The language was brutal, and they gave us hell every day, but you get used to things and we did. I will never be in as good a shape as I was then, and I was never able to keep up with workers.
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Post by mrb on May 8, 2024 15:53:21 GMT
My first job was as a farm hand at a dairy farm. The pay was good because the work was brutal. We bailed hay all day and took few breaks in the summer heat. At times we would take breaks to move dead adult Holstein Cows. My brother and I were in our early teens and the others working with us were adults and leathery. They would drink hot beer or Canadian Club in secret and smoke while they worked. The language was brutal, and they gave us hell every day, but you get used to things and we did. I will never be in as good a shape as I was then, and I was never able to keep up with workers. Whereabouts was this orientsc? |
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Post by orientsc on May 8, 2024 18:21:56 GMT
My first job was as a farm hand at a dairy farm. The pay was good because the work was brutal. We bailed hay all day and took few breaks in the summer heat. At times we would take breaks to move dead adult Holstein Cows. My brother and I were in our early teens and the others working with us were adults and leathery. They would drink hot beer or Canadian Club in secret and smoke while they worked. The language was brutal, and they gave us hell every day, but you get used to things and we did. I will never be in as good a shape as I was then, and I was never able to keep up with workers. Whereabouts was this orientsc? Deadfall Road, Silverstreet South Carolina. It’s not as magical a place as it may sound. 😆 |
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Post by billericayo on May 8, 2024 18:44:55 GMT
Cramphorns Upminster about 1966 Seed merchants and Pet shop £5 pw, left after 2 months. Joined Times Newspapers Apprentice Electrotyper/Stereotyper £15pw, never looked back. I am sure I used that shop in Upminster - can’t remember the location I think it was down StMarys lane near the traffic lights ( bell corner) Further down opposite where the old Gaumont fleapit cinema was |
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Post by haroldwoodo on May 8, 2024 20:09:28 GMT
When I left school I joined the British Rail version of the YTS. It felt like a kings ransom paying £80 p/w instead of the £35 on the YTS.
They put 40 of us through two years of training,covering all aspects of railway work only to make us all redundant at the end of it.
I couldn't work it out either.
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Post by billk53 on May 8, 2024 20:13:44 GMT
What a way to run a railway
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2024 9:12:36 GMT
When I left school I joined the British Rail version of the YTS. It felt like a kings ransom paying £80 p/w instead of the £35 on the YTS. They put 40 of us through two years of training,covering all aspects of railway work only to make us all redundant at the end of it. I couldn't work it out either. What's YTS? |
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Post by Fisch on May 9, 2024 9:49:09 GMT
When I left school I joined the British Rail version of the YTS. It felt like a kings ransom paying £80 p/w instead of the £35 on the YTS. They put 40 of us through two years of training,covering all aspects of railway work only to make us all redundant at the end of it. I couldn't work it out either. What's YTS? Youth Training Scheme. A kind of cut-down apprenticeship with govt. support - or a method of getting kids off the unemployment figures. It depends upon your political views. |
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Post by redshank on May 9, 2024 12:49:31 GMT
Whereabouts was this orientsc? Deadfall Road, Silverstreet South Carolina. It’s not as magical a place as it may sound. 😆 Neither is Silvertown in East London. |
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Post by mrb on May 9, 2024 13:01:58 GMT
Deadfall Road, Silverstreet South Carolina. It’s not as magical a place as it may sound. 😆 Neither is Silvertown in East London. 😂😂but at least you got the LC airport to take you away!! |
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Post by redshank on May 9, 2024 13:13:29 GMT
A 16 year old mrs redshank just told me her wages was 2 guineas a week as a NCR 32 operator Theobalds road London WC1.Named after Theobalds Palace which King James stopped at during his journeys.Also named Kingsway.
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Post by Fisch on May 9, 2024 14:44:16 GMT
A 16 year old mrs redshank just told me her wages was 2 guineas a week as a NCR 32 operator Theobalds road London WC1.Named after Theobalds Palace which King James stopped at during his journeys.Also named Kingsway. Did a 16 year old Mrs Redshank know how to work a comptometer? I never really understood what they were for. |
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Post by dohnut on May 9, 2024 15:41:53 GMT
A 16 year old mrs redshank just told me her wages was 2 guineas a week as a NCR 32 operator Theobalds road London WC1.Named after Theobalds Palace which King James stopped at during his journeys.Also named Kingsway. Did a 16 year old Mrs Redshank know how to work a comptometer? I never really understood what they were for. Mrs dOn was a comptometer operator for the Prudential Assurance Company in Holborn for a few years. I never knew what they did either. |
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Post by mysmellypants on May 9, 2024 16:17:33 GMT
Saturday job in 1971 at the age of 11. Working in the pet shop in George Lane for 50p a day.
Then when I was 16 I started at Bank of America for £150 a month, that was a fortune.
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Post by redshank on May 9, 2024 16:43:03 GMT
A 16 year old mrs redshank just told me her wages was 2 guineas a week as a NCR 32 operator Theobalds road London WC1.Named after Theobalds Palace which King James stopped at during his journeys.Also named Kingsway. Did a 16 year old Mrs Redshank know how to work a comptometer? I never really understood what they were for. Calculating, she saw one being used and was fascinated by the speed of the user,it was the precursor of the calculator but she was a wiz on that NCR 32 and loved everyday at work until she was retired during covid aged 73.Had very few days off work for illness.Went from NCR 32 to the computer. |
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