I got my sisters and well my brother was in the army, so there were three sisters that I had to bring up and I had to do something to earn some money so that’s how I got into this
Rite and how did it work with the firms in Bridprot
Well it worked the best way I could because I had work to do; I mean the cleaning cooking and everything.
You had to fit this in between times
Take the kids to school and all that, ‘course my youngest sister was just gone five when my mother died, so another one was twelve and another was just about to leave school
Quite a handful
So that’s how we managed
So when the man came out they came out to you from the firm and they gave you an order for what they wanted, what sort of typical order might it be
Well they used to bring it in and put it on the tally
So they gave you a tally, which was effectively an order
Tell you all what you had to do like I said, what laces to use and everything and you had to get along and do it
And how did they specify what they wanted
They came the next week and expected it to be done, paid out the money and left you something else
How much money did you get
Well like I say about six shillings a dozen, if you do two dozen you get about twelve shillings
Not an awful amount of money for that work
Well not a lot of money today but we had to manage on it then.