Follow-up

IN 1952 I left school aged 15 and got a job in a local factory producing metal drums and kegs. My hours were 7.30am to 5pm for a princely £2.8s.6d.

As time-keeper’s assistant (office boy), I had to be at the time clocks at 7.15am to stop the workers clocking each other in. then at 7.30am I had to stamp the timekeeper’s card. he would arrive at 8.30am — just before the office manager. I thought he was just working the system and didn’t realise his hours were 8.30am to 5pm — enabling him to grant himself an hour’s overtime.