Oh heck it is 5th June 1966,i leave school tomorrow,no certificates no idea what i want to do.I can have a week off say my parents,then i must find a job.I buy the YEP i get a job third sales mens shoes Barratts,Commercial Street.It is summer of 1966 i am underground i wont be home till 18-30,i miss the World Cup Final,i miss Leeds United,i pack the job in.
I get a job with British Relay Park Place as a stock controller i am also the office boy,what, i must be the oldest office boy in Yorkshire,Wage is £5-25p per week plus luncheon vouchers,i soon get bored.My dad is very ill he works for himself,he offers me more money, i am now a painter and decorator.All is well til xmas 1971 a few days before xmas we finish a job we share £27 between three of us,this is not good.JAN 1972 i am now a postman at Moortown pdo,what a great job i am being paid to walk the countryside in East Keswick,brilliant.
It is now 1983,i need more money so i go to Wellington Street as a phg,i go to Chap Road as phg,this justs gets better,Albert Portway is an angel the staff love him,i work under other great blokes,Tony Thorpe,John Millighan an under estimated bloke named Ian Sharples all great blokes.
things change the job gets split into three we have to leave pdo work and go back to Wellington Street,it gets even better great blokes and women to work with.
Disaster strikes in 1999 we go to Stourton,hell by 2004 vol redundancy is offered,i have had enough i have not been well.I get my chance in 2006,i leave with my pension and a tax free lump sum.I miss some great blokes and ladies.
Well it is now June 5th 2013 i have been retired nearly 7 years.On monday i cycled to Bingley five rise locks .Yesterday i found myself in Boroughbridge.
Tomorrow i will have been left school 47 years,hey it's not been too bad.
Well another year has gone so i thought i might just look at this again,all in all not a bad life,there have been some sad and bad times but not many.
I get a job with British Relay Park Place as a stock controller i am also the office boy,what, i must be the oldest office boy in Yorkshire,Wage is £5-25p per week plus luncheon vouchers,i soon get bored.My dad is very ill he works for himself,he offers me more money, i am now a painter and decorator.All is well til xmas 1971 a few days before xmas we finish a job we share £27 between three of us,this is not good.JAN 1972 i am now a postman at Moortown pdo,what a great job i am being paid to walk the countryside in East Keswick,brilliant.
It is now 1983,i need more money so i go to Wellington Street as a phg,i go to Chap Road as phg,this justs gets better,Albert Portway is an angel the staff love him,i work under other great blokes,Tony Thorpe,John Millighan an under estimated bloke named Ian Sharples all great blokes.
things change the job gets split into three we have to leave pdo work and go back to Wellington Street,it gets even better great blokes and women to work with.
Disaster strikes in 1999 we go to Stourton,hell by 2004 vol redundancy is offered,i have had enough i have not been well.I get my chance in 2006,i leave with my pension and a tax free lump sum.I miss some great blokes and ladies.
Well it is now June 5th 2013 i have been retired nearly 7 years.On monday i cycled to Bingley five rise locks .Yesterday i found myself in Boroughbridge.
Tomorrow i will have been left school 47 years,hey it's not been too bad.
Well another year has gone so i thought i might just look at this again,all in all not a bad life,there have been some sad and bad times but not many.
