Your Jobs Of Work In Manchester

[lin]

Hi all...
Was wondering if any of you would like to write about the places you've worked in Manchester, from the time you all left school

I unfortunately have never actually worked in Manchester myself having left there when I was 7 but I would love to hear about all your jobs....This is an attempt to get people talking on here, I hope it works, everyone seems to have gone to sleep. so wakey wakey guys, lets hear all about those jobs you've done from the past.

Lin

[Lisa]

Hi Lin, Would you like to open that thread? I think its a good one. You need to do it yourself to put your name to it and who started it. How about naming it: MY FIRST JOB(s).......its a start at least and I think its a good start. Well done Lin.

[christine]

well when i left school i worked at a hairdressers on the new rd, then i worked at baracuta machining rain coats, then i worked in ancoats where they did writting pads and jigsaws xxxchris

[Lisa]

My first job was at Burlington Catalogues but it was boring so I went to Secretarial College and then worked as Secretary for a Jewish Raincoat company in Cheetham Hill. After working there for three years, I fancied a change and went to work in Spring Gardens in Manchester for Chadwicks of Oldham as a Receptionist, then onto Hyde as a Secretary for an engineering company(very boring), more receptionist work before defecting to London in 1966.

[lin]

Hi Lisa R.
I've had many jobs, hotel receptionist, worked at the golf and country club down here in Cornwall, had a dab at hairdressing...even done chef work in the golf and country club, but trained as a seamstress and machinist, all down South. I also worked in shops like woolies, done a 6 week stint as a secretary but didn't like that, worked in factories etc, probably too many jobs to mention, restless feet

Lin

[vivien]

Hi Lin

My first job was as an office junior for a fruit and veg distributor to schools. The place was called Eugene Elliott and was situated in I think "New Cross" near to oh lord have forgotten the streets now, near to the old Evening Mail building and not far from Smithfield Market. I used to have to walk through the market with all the firms wages, in fact my boyfiend at the time who later became my husband, who later became my ex-husband !! wrote to the Manchester Evening News saying it was scandalous a young 16 yr old had to walk through the market with all that money. I didn't care mind as I walked passed the loveliest guy in the market !!! I learnt how to use the switchboard and then type and eventually I taught myself audio typing and left to work at St Andrews House as a copy typist. We had some fun there though and the boss was lovely. He was George Elliott and his partner was a Nat Meek. Alan Wall was the boss of the guys delivering the veg to the schools and always shouted specially at me, he frightened the life out of me, but eventually I came to like him. I made many friends there who I am no longer in touch with, Linda Cleworth, Eunice and so many names I have forgotten, but often wonder where they are. Happy days.

[lin]

Hi Vivien....Yes happy days, I don't think people are quite so friendly these days as they used to be, which is understandable living in todays world, sadly you couldn't walk through the market these days without fear of being attacked.

Lin

[Lisa]

Hi Viv, Have you looked for your friends on FRIENDS REUNITED? Its very cheap to join and you can see who's joined from your old school. They also do a reunions page too.

[vivien]

Hi Lisa

Yes have joined friends reunited and found my first boyfried John Phillips. In fact I put out an message on manmates and he got in touch with me again. His brother sent some photos to you.

[vivien]

Hi Lin

Yes you are right - mind you I wish the guy in the market had been more friendly wink wink !

Viv

[lin]

Hi Vivien,
Say no more, nudge nudge, wink wink.

Lin

[vivien]

Blimey Lin it really brings it back to me - he had Ian McShane eyes and I never knew his name !!

Viv

[lin]

Hi Vivien...very nice eyes I would say...glad it's bringing it all back to you.

Lin

[Lisa]

LOVEJOY..........

vivien said:

Blimey Lin it really brings it back to me - he had Ian McShane eyes and I never knew his name !!

Viv

[lin]

Yeah that's right Vivien....Lovejoy, Ian McShane.

Lin

[lin]

Hi Lisa...do you have any idea of what's happening on the message board? it now looks like Viviens posts are on your member place.

Lin

[Lisa]

STEADY ON YOU TWO.......you'll be getting all excited with your memories and the Ian McShane Eyes.........Do any of you remember your first boyfriend and his name? I mean FIRST by the one you fell in love with or had a schoolgirl crush on. Mine was a boy in Clayton called Vincent Lawler and he had Elvis Presley eyes. My next one was called Raymond Taylor and came from Droylsden. When I used to go away to my parents' caravan he wrote to me and I remember the thrill of collecting his letter from the farmhouse. I ate my breakfast rather too quickly and ran down to the beach to be alone with 'my love letter'. He'd enclosed a tiny photograph and I wish I'd kept it. He promised to 'be good' while I was away and I believed him. Silly fool. My heart was broken but I can still remember when he first kissed me. My very first kiss and I thought my head would explode and thought my parents would guess by the look on my face, which was all flushed, so I ran upstairs to bed without my cocoa - it must have been love.......... AND I was only 14.

[vivien]

Yes I can remember him - but can't say too much as he is a member of manmates I think. I do remember another one though, Roy from Barnsley. We were on a scool trip to Staithes Nr Whitby and he had such a broad accent - we used to take the mickey out of it. Anyway he wrote to me too and my Mum saw the letter and said I musn't have said anything nice to him by what he replied !!!! I never heard from him again - I only threw the letter away a few years ago.

Viv

[Lisa]

Now I see what you mean Lin. Dont know what happened. Maybe Alan is doing some tests, or is getting carried away with the topics of our postings......!!!

mavisredford said:

LOVEJOY..........

vivien said:

Blimey Lin it really brings it back to me - he had Ian McShane eyes and I never knew his name !!

Viv

[Lisa]

Hi Viv, Who's a member of Manmates? Ian McShane, Roy from Barnsley or VL or RT? Send me a pm and tell me more.......

vivien said:

Yes I can remember him - but can't say too much as he is a member of manmates I think. I do remember another one though, Roy from Barnsley. We were on a scool trip to Staithes Nr Whitby and he had such a broad accent - we used to take the mickey out of it. Anyway he wrote to me too and my Mum saw the letter and said I musn't have said anything nice to him by what he replied !!!! I never heard from him again - I only threw the letter away a few years ago.

Viv

[BABS]

HELLO LISA ,LIN AND VIV.

YOU ARE GETTING VERY HOT ABOUT THESE OLD FLAMES,I MIGHT JUST GIVE LISA A SHOCK ABOUT ONE OF HER OLD BOYFRIENDS.


BABSX

[Lisa]

Hi Babs, Glad to see you back and how are you feeling after yesterday's events? What have you got to tell me about one of my old flames? Go on, shock me or maybe you'd better send me a pm...........I am sitting down, AND I havent had my G&T yet, so you're safe........

[lin]

mavisredford said:

STEADY ON YOU TWO.......you'll be getting all excited with your memories and the Ian McShane Eyes.........Do any of you remember your first boyfriend and his name? I mean FIRST by the one you fell in love with or had a schoolgirl crush on. Mine was a boy in Clayton called Vincent Lawler and he had Elvis Presley eyes. My next one was called Raymond Taylor and came from Droylsden. When I used to go away to my parents' caravan he wrote to me and I remember the thrill of collecting his letter from the farmhouse. I ate my breakfast rather too quickly and ran down to the beach to be alone with 'my love letter'. He'd enclosed a tiny photograph and I wish I'd kept it. He promised to 'be good' while I was away and I believed him. Silly fool. My heart was broken but I can still remember when he first kissed me. My very first kiss and I thought my head would explode and thought my parents would guess by the look on my face, which was all flushed, so I ran upstairs to bed without my cocoa - it must have been love.......... AND I was only 14.

I wonder what else or who else we are going to get excited about? I remember a few of mine, most of which I got engaged to, but in the end there was always soemone better most of mine were in the services, but I knew what they were like, maybe that's why I ended up ditching them....

Lin

[BABS]

HI LISA
I USED TO DO HAIRDRESSERS WORK AFTER SCHOOL AND WEEKENDS BEFORE I LEFT SCHOOL.

MY 1ST JOB WAS TELEPHONIST AND RECEPTION WORK AT A LADIES CLOTHING COMPANY IN MANCHESTER,THEN AFTER I MARRIED AND MY 1ST CHILD WAS OLD ENOUGH I WENT AND DID ALL SORTS OF JOBS,BOX MAKING , SHOP WORK PASSING CLOTHES MADE BY MACHINISTS,BAR WORK AT NIGHT .

MY FAVOURITE SCHOOL DINNER WAS BACON ROLL, AND FOLLOWED BY CORNFLAKE PIE AND CUSTARD.

BABSX

[BABS]

HI LISA

I BETTER SEND YOU A , P M ,ABOUT THE LAD I AM TALKING ABOUT AS HE MIGHT READ IT AND I WOULDNT WANT TO STIR UP ANYTHING.

BABSX

[lin]

babs said:

HELLO LISA ,LIN AND VIV.

YOU ARE GETTING VERY HOT ABOUT THESE OLD FLAMES,I MIGHT JUST GIVE LISA A SHOCK ABOUT ONE OF HER OLD BOYFRIENDS.


BABSX

Hiya Babs...yes we're all getting hot under the collar I'm afraid, but what the heck, we can dream on can't we?... I'm only blushing because I'm very reserved if you believe that you'll believe anything

Hope you're feeling stronger Babs?

Lin

[Lisa]

Hi Lin, I think we could reminisce all day about the things we did as children or teenagers and we all seem to have had similar experiences. It must have been the era we were born in because we were (or seemed) very innocent in those days. If I kissed a boy I thought I was committing the ultimate crime, and even thought I'd get pregnant just by kissing, until someone told me the truth and I didnt believe them..........it sounded much too far-fetched to be true

[lin]

mavisredford said:

Now I see what you mean Lin. Dont know what happened. Maybe Alan is doing some tests, or is getting carried away with the topics of our postings......!!!

mavisredford said:

LOVEJOY..........

THAT'S WEIRD WHAT EVER IT IS THAT'S HAPPENED.

LIN

[Lisa]

Hi Lin, R E S E R V E D ? You Lin? Anyone who'd been engaged to someone in the Services CANNOT be reserved.......

[BABS]

HI LISA

JUST GOT BACK FROM THE HOSI,MY MUMS GOT HEART FAILURE AGAIN AND AN INFECTION ON HER CHEST WHICH IS NOT HELPING HER AT THE MOMENT,BUT NO DOUBT SHE WILL BE HOME IN A FEW DAYS AS SHE ALWAYS IS.

I HAVE HAD A LETTER OF REPLY FROM TAMESIDE TODAY RE: MY COMPLAINTS TO THEM ABOUT JOES TREATMENT AND THE MISDIAGNOSIS THAT THEY MADE WITH HIM,3 PAGES LONG NOT HAPPY WITH IT ,SO ITS GOING TO THE HEALTH TRIBUNAL BOARD WITH ALL THE OTHER PAPERWORK.

I WAS NOT HAPPY AT VISITING MY MUM THERE TODAY,COULD ONLY STAY 3/4 HOUR WITH GRAHAM I WAS GETTING ALL WORKED UP AND STARTED TO GET A BAD HEADACHE ,HAD TO GET OUT.

WILL E MAIL YOU LATER.

BABSX