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Post by june on Mar 31, 2008 8:07:15 GMT -1
hiya june .....I reckon that box place you didnt like because it was too noisy was the "METAL BOX COMPANY"..........on crabtree lane that place was very noisy.......  olly i'm sure that Box works was on Pollard st i think,,  |
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Post by OLLY on Mar 31, 2008 13:10:56 GMT -1
SILLY BILLY NEW YOU MEANT POLLARD STREET  hiya june .....I reckon that box place you didnt like because it was too noisy was the "METAL BOX COMPANY"..........on crabtree lane that place was very noisy....... olly i'm sure that Box works was on Pollard st i think,, |
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Post by carolewilson on Apr 5, 2008 18:52:16 GMT -1
Hi Lisa,
I worked for Fred Eyre Stationers I had a very good job as his PA he was an ex pro footballer so got to no all the Unted and City players what a job. He now does a radio show for GM radio for Man City matches. What a great bloke to work for the best job I have ever had.
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Post by dave2 on Jun 17, 2008 20:06:41 GMT -1
hi christine,i used to work at baracuta [bolton branch] as a hoffman presser ,now and again the boss got me to go to the m/c one to do a delivery i also had a mate there called george carter also a presser i dont know how long he had worked there ,i used to go mid 70s
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Post by fildesst on Jul 14, 2008 11:23:21 GMT -1
hello, Im Lynne also. i left school at 14 my first job was sewing at raffles on bradford rd in ancoats. they use to make coats for marks and spencers. felt so grown up, getting a wage packet. finishing at 2 on a friday and getting an underage lager in the magpie pub which was facing raffles. made some good friends there, laughs we had. there threw the 3 day week during the miners strike. was bad then getting your wages on a wednesday, after working just mon, tue, wed. never had a penny left for wk end.
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Post by lin on Jul 14, 2008 13:28:11 GMT -1
HI LYNNE....JUST READING YOUR POST ABOVE AND NOTICED YOU USED TO WORK AT RAFFLES ON BRADFORD RD...SMALL WORLD, MY MAM USED TO WORK THERE...CAN'T REMEMBER THE YEAR BUT THE BOSSES WERE JEWISH I BELIEVE....
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Post by fildesst on Jul 14, 2008 16:47:42 GMT -1
hi, yes they were jewish.The main man was called manny, he use to walk around the shop floor in a white dinner type jacket, thingyy bow smoking a cigar. it aint that long ago really that smoking was acceptable in the work place. He was quite scary, us youngsters were scared to look up from our machines when he was around. Looking back, we were well paid. I was on piece work and would say 80quid a week was a good wage for a 14 yr old in the 70s. I loved working there. I was an overlocker and worked on charlies, and maureens sections.
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Post by Tigger on Jul 14, 2008 19:33:59 GMT -1
Blimey Lynne... started work at 14 (gotta be pre 1950)... on the overlocker (Yamoto??) .. 5 or 3 thread, were you doing 'linings' (for the coats).
Kids (and some adults) dont realise what REAL piece work was... if you didn't get or do the work - you didnt get paid ANYTHING. The fall back rate only came around in the mid to late 70's.
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Post by lin on Jul 15, 2008 5:55:30 GMT -1
hi, yes they were jewish.The main man was called manny, he use to walk around the shop floor in a white dinner type jacket, thingyy bow smoking a cigar. it aint that long ago really that smoking was acceptable in the work place. He was quite scary, us youngsters were scared to look up from our machines when he was around. Looking back, we were well paid. I was on piece work and would say 80quid a week was a good wage for a 14 yr old in the 70s. I loved working there. I was an overlocker and worked on charlies, and maureens sections. HIYA...I THOUGHT MY MAM TOLD ME THEY WERE JEWISH, SHE WAS ON PEACEWORK AS WELL..SHE USED TO GET ON WITH THEM VERY WELL..NOT SURE ABOUT THE NAME THOUGH..CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME SHE USED TO SAY, BUT WE LEFT M/C IN 1956, SO IT WAS A FEW YEARS BEFORE THAT WHEN SHE WORKED THERE BECAUSE SHE WORKED AT RINGWAY AIRPORT BEFORE WE LEFT..WHAT WAS RINGWAY AIRPORT |
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Post by fildesst on Jul 16, 2008 11:15:09 GMT -1
that was a long time ago, I was born in 1956, so your mum was there before i was born.
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Post by fildesst on Jul 16, 2008 11:25:28 GMT -1
hello tigger, no it was a 5 thread brother. school leaving age was 15, but I was stil 14 when my last 6 wks hols began, having my 15th birthday in that 6wks. it was 1971 when i left school. Yes i did do the coat linings, it was hard work but great days. Was not a bad firm raffles, if there was no work or it was late coming from the cutting room, you got paid time which was an hourly rate. You would be given something else to do , whatever needed doing.
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Post by lin on Jul 16, 2008 13:27:55 GMT -1
that was a long time ago, I was born in 1956, so your mum was there before i was born. HIYA.. YES IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO..THINK SHE MAY HAVE EVEN WORKED THERE BEFORE I WAS BORN IN 1949, CAN'T REALLY REMEMBER WHAT SHE TOLD ME NOW.  |
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Post by dave2 on Jul 16, 2008 16:55:22 GMT -1
hi lin and fildesst, hows java going lin , hello fildesst,
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Post by fildesst on Jul 16, 2008 17:22:24 GMT -1
hello dave2 , my name is lynne fildes st is the street i was born on. thanks for the hello
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Post by dave2 on Jul 16, 2008 17:57:50 GMT -1
hi lynne, are you the lynne who went to harpurhey girls school in 72.
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Post by bancrog on Jul 16, 2008 19:04:13 GMT -1
Jobs in Manchester. When I left St. Ignatius I went to work at J.N. Phillips just off Piccadilly Gardens and then went to work for Chorlton Warehouse (it was a catalogue company). I also worked at Manchester Town Hall in the Parking/ticketing office. I now live in Canada and no one is on line when I am because of the time difference! I was born in C-on-Medlock, Hulme and remember Pauldins burning down and the fair that used to come and set up over the road from us. I remember going to the wash house with my mum, playing with sticks in the tar when it had melted, swinging on the lamp posts and so many good times. Never worried about anything, just having fun.
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Post by Tigger on Jul 16, 2008 20:16:00 GMT -1
Hi Gloria...
and 'Oh my giddy Aunt'... Chorlton Warehouse... ye gawwwwds. I remember my Father taking me there for a pair of shoes (I think) in the very early 1960's.
I seem to recall being near the old bus terminus and Police Station (which was set back slightly) on Barlow Moor Road in between Sandy Lane and Wilbraham Road. I could be wrong ... twas over 40 years ago...when I was still a nipper.
Also remember Pauldens burning down... and the empty space being left there for years after - always used to peer down into the open celler/basement when passing on the top deck of the bus.
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Post by june on Jul 17, 2008 6:18:58 GMT -1
hello, Im Lynne also. i left school at 14 my first job was sewing at raffles on bradford rd in ancoats. they use to make coats for marks and spencers. felt so grown up, getting a wage packet. finishing at 2 on a friday and getting an underage lager in the magpie pub which was facing raffles. made some good friends there, laughs we had. there threw the 3 day week during the miners strike. was bad then getting your wages on a wednesday, after working just mon, tue, wed. never had a penny left for wk end. hi lynne remember Raffles on Bradford rd we lived for a short while in miles platting a worked at Sylvana mill on Bradford rd u remember that |
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Post by fildesst on Jul 17, 2008 6:54:42 GMT -1
I did go to harpurhey high,but im pretty sure i left there in 1971. was working 3 wks before my 15th birthday and i was born in 1956. do you know me? if so just introduce your self.
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Post by fildesst on Jul 17, 2008 6:57:02 GMT -1
yes i remember sylvanas, i brought a harrington jacket from there. they use to do a free bus to there do you remember the bus.
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Post by june on Jul 17, 2008 7:00:05 GMT -1
hi lynne a do remember the free bus ,we only lived up the rd new maisonetts just off butler st up nr the Angel pub ,we were in Collyhurst before there
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Post by fildesst on Jul 17, 2008 7:21:49 GMT -1
hi June yes i remember the angel. my aunts lived in miles platting, one still lives there. She been there since being a young woman with a young family. her name is mary moores, you may know her, she is my mothers sister.
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Post by june on Jul 17, 2008 14:57:14 GMT -1
hi lynne soz your aunty's name do'nt ring a bell
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Post by ravydave on Jul 20, 2008 20:30:29 GMT -1
HI, I my first job after leaving St Willibrords clayton in 1957 was at Baxendales glass in zinc st of Rochdale Rd stayed in the same trade untill being made redundant in 1998.
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Post by codger on Jul 23, 2008 10:40:59 GMT -1
My first job was in 1964, I left school early (15) before my o'levels, basically because I hated the place, Ardwick Tech. My brother Neil stayed on and ended up teaching which nearly drove him crackers, so a good choice methinks. I came from a large family and my oldest brother had recently been killed whilst mining for the Army in Gibraltar, so I decided to carry some of the family burden and get a job. Beyer Peac*ck was the first step on my long journey of employment, my brother Robert was a fitter in the Boiler Shop (now the Council Yard) and I decided to follow him. I remember walking along Gorton Lane with another lad in mid-August on one of those long hot summer days our aged minds kid us into believing were common. We walked together down Froxmer Street into the lodge and Irving, the uniformed commissionaire guided us to the Labour office, Con O'Regan was the labour manager in those days. It was a wooden hut near the canteen (handy!) and we tramped along the wooden floor, you could hear us coming a mile off, rang the bell and within seconds the window slid up and a balding bespectacled clerk greeted us. Needless to say I got a start, the other lad didn't, but the only advantage I had over him was that I had a brother working there. My first months would be served as an office boy, along with Kevin Callaghan, a lad called Willy, Ray Farrell and an Irish boy who's name is lost in the ravages of time. I was placed in the Time Lodge at number 9 gate, all the workmen entered and clocked in here before usually going into the canteen, where the local newsagent had set a stall up selling his wares. The buzzer sounded at 7.30 and 7.45 if I remember, and if it got to 8.15 the gates were locked until lunchtime. I hated the time office, it consisted solely of a large oak-table and the clocking on clocks, the time-clerk reminded me of Griptyte Thynne (Goons) and never spoke to me, he just stared. My job was to collect the cards after the gates shut and pass them to him, after he collated the information he required I placed them back into the racks before lunchtime, this act repeated after lunch. The rest of my day was mind-numbing, I had to get out....but how?
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Post by lin on Jul 23, 2008 10:59:28 GMT -1
Hi Codger and welcome to manmates, thanks for the story of your first job, hope you enjoy the site...good browsing. |
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Post by codger on Jul 24, 2008 10:55:23 GMT -1
Thanks Lin, always nice to get a welcome from a fellow Red. Further to yesterdays posting, my move from the time office was only set-up by that god given gift that only mothers possess. My mam knew that there was something wrong on my return from work each night and after continual questioning that would have done an ex SS guard justice, I caved in. The nect day there she was in Con O'Regans office and come the following Monday I was placed into the Labour office for the next 5 months of my inauguration. Needless to say I was indebted to her for the rest of my days, and on clocking in every morning kept my eyes shielded from Gritpype. I worked then in the Fabricating shop until mid 1966 when BP closed down and I was paid off, do you know that they were the first company in the country to receive redundancy pay, I think an MP called Silver pushed for such payments. I then got a job shelf stacking at Carlines Supermarkets on Hyde Road, anyone remember it near Woolworths; but only for a month or two before I went back into engineering at Vaughan Crane down on Gorton Road. I enjoyed my time at VC and worked with a great fitter called Arthur Walker, he taught me a lot but ommitted family planning, as my girlfriend, with my help, became pregnant and I needed more than an Apprentice Fitters wage. I left VC just after my 18th birthday when I had just begun to start paying tax, a club I didn't really want to join. I had a rented house, wife and baby on the way having got married in the summer of love (1967) and needed more money. Our kid, the one who I worked at BP with had joined the gas board, and as I had done previously I duly followed him "on the gas". This was the time I really started to grow up, working on the road with some of the best characters you could wish to meet, and also starting to enjoy a drink. United won the European Cup, my son was born and I was virtually running to work, getting £12+ per week wasn't a bad wage either......but as we all know only too well; all good things come to an end.
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Post by lin on Jul 24, 2008 11:41:16 GMT -1
HI CODGER YOU'RE WELCOME. THEY ALWAYS SAY MUMS KNOW BEST.  BUT HOW THE WAGES HAVE CHANGED FROM THOSE DAYS..WE COULD JUST NOT COPE NOW COULD WE, WHAT THE PRICE OF PETROL CRIPPLING A LOT OF COMPANIES. I LEFT M/C WITH MY PARENTS TO MOVE DOWN TO DEVON WHEN I WAS 7, AT 17 WE MOVED TO CORNWALL AND I'VE BEEN HERE EVER SINCE...STILL DON'T LIKE I THERE...GUESS I'M STILL A M/C GIRL THROUGH AT HEART |
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Post by june on Jul 27, 2008 5:31:53 GMT -1
Hi Codger an welcome to to mm,have enjoyed reading your post's |
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Post by Tigger on Jul 27, 2008 19:05:36 GMT -1
Greeting Codger!!... Now I like this fellah already..... Codger has a tendency to overlook/bypass/not think about the saying - 'why write a story when one sentence will suffice'.. who wants to read a 'blink and its gone' sentence when a full blown 'blow by blow' (sic) is soooooooooooooo much better on the eye.
A man 'after me own 'eart'.... next episode if you will Codger, please. |
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BUT HOW THE WAGES HAVE CHANGED FROM THOSE DAYS..WE COULD JUST NOT COPE NOW COULD WE, WHAT THE PRICE OF PETROL CRIPPLING A LOT OF COMPANIES.