Bert Craik

[…]enced. And as a result of these negotiations, we won three weeks holiday after 10 years service, and the consolidation of 30 shillings of the cost of living bonus in the basic wage. The wage claim itself and the 40 hour week were referred to arbitration. And as a result of the arbitration, we gained[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]n jobs.BH: I think so, because there was a great feeling you should go home and look after the home, it never occurred to them that you had to earn a living to keep a child. JH: I remember feeling resentful when I came back from the RAF. I wanted to go back to Bush House, because I had been qui[…]

Richard (Tony) Arnell

[…] There was no musical event at the Hall at all.JS: Go on, I want to find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused[…]

Paula Wright (Springall)

[…]me what was going on. But now I don't know anything. I did go down a lot some while ago, I suppose, about five years ago or six years ago, when I was living in Sussex, and they rang me to ask me if I would do a day's work at Powell, which is was quite near to Lewis, where I lived. And I went down to[…]

Geoffrey MacAdam Foot

[…]got 15 Bob a week, and that went up to 30 Bob after another three months. So after a year, I think I was getting 25 Bob or something. You know, I was living at home. More fortunately, my father had a car, but he didn't drive, and I did, so I was able to sort of commute from Putney to eating, which o[…]
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