6-6-66.

[postman]

No not Satan's mobile,but the date i left school.There has been some water under the bridge since then.Some of it choppy,we we got through that.My parents allowed me one week off,then i had to find a job.No qualifications so a job out of the Yorkshire Evening Post,in those days that's where you found them.
First job third sales Barratts Shoes,Commercial Street,Leeds.I hated it had to work till 17-30 on a Saturday,thus missing Leeds United,and the 1966 World Cup.packed that in sharpish.Next job an office boy ha ha seventeen i must have been the oldest in the country,British Relay tv company,rentals and that sort of thing.
Going nowhere with that job.Then my dad a decorator was really ill,and when he got better he asked me to work for him,he could not do the donkey work.Well around 1970-71 work was scarce,and December that year we finished a kitchen and shared £27 profit between three of us,£9 Christmas week.Well in Jan 1971 there was a Postal strike and after it was over they began taking on staff.I joined in Jan 1972,i stayed there till i took along with many many others vol redundancy.I would have been a mug not to.Tax free lump sum ,loads of it and a pension.Twelve years later still retired and doing voluntary work when i feel like it.
1966 it is a long long time ago.

 

[Cycleops]

That’s interesting, I also left school in that same year. I’m the same age as you. My first job was in a laundry where I operated the huge spin dryers. Whatever happened to sending your clothes to the laundry?
I won’t bore you all with the rest of my work history.

 

[classic33]

No not Satan's mobile,but the date i left school.There has been some water under the bridge since then.Some of it choppy,we we got through that.My parents allowed me one week off,then i had to find a job.No qualifications so a job out of the Yorkshire Evening Post,in those days that's where you found them.
First job third sales Barratts Shoes,Commercial Street,Leeds.I hated it had to work till 17-30 on a Saturday,thus missing Leeds United,and the 1966 World Cup.packed that in sharpish.Next job an office boy ha ha seventeen i must have been the oldest in the country,British Relay tv company,rentals and that sort of thing.
Going nowhere with that job.Then my dad a decorator was really ill,and when he got better he asked me to work for him,he could not do the donkey work.Well around 1970-71 work was scarce,and December that year we finished a kitchen and shared £27 profit between three of us,£9 Christmas week.Well in Jan 1971 there was a Postal strike and after it was over they began taking on staff.I joined in Jan 1972,i stayed there till i took along with many many others vol redundancy.I would have been a mug not to.Tax free lump sum ,loads of it and a pension.Twelve years later still retired and doing voluntary work when i feel like it.
1966 it is a long long time ago.

Still there isn't it, just a bit further up now.

 

[Sharky]

The year I joined my first cycling club, just after my O levels were finished.

 

[Beebo]

1966 it is a long long time ago.

52 years of hurt, as we will be endlessly informed in the next few weeks.

 

[Mrs M]

I feel like a youngster
Just born in ‘66

 

[gavroche]

1966, the first time I came to England. I was 16 then. My first impression was how old fashioned the cars looked, how awful the food was but how great Carnaby Street was.

 

[Fnaar]

I was 4 then, and apparently spent a chunk of the summer very ill with an allergic reaction to penicillin.

 

[Jimidh]

I feel like a youngster
Just born in ‘66

Snap!!

 

[craigwend]

Snap!!

Snap !!

 

[swee'pea99]

I would've been five and a half, and just remember World Cup Willie. And that's all I do remember, though I presume I watched the final.

 

[classic33]

I feel like a youngster
Just born in ‘66

Snap

 

[raleighnut]

I remember watching the World Cup and wondering why grown men were so excited by a bunch of people squabbling over a ball, nothing has changed much.

 

[Levo-Lon]

52 years of hurt, as we will be endlessly informed in the next few weeks.

We will, i was a 65 baby ,so they may win if i live to be 500

 

[Dirk]

1966 - the year I started grammar school.