Recorded Memories

Bill Lumley Interviews. August 2000.

Reflections on work, family and social life in Earl Shilton 1929-1980:

‘There used to be crowds in the street…this was a very prosperous village…’

‘[Countermen] about 700 in the district – a closed-shop affair – if one factory was short and another busy…they’d borrow you…if you was in the warehouse…you could pretty well go to work in your best suit’

‘My aunt was probably on about £5-£6, for a woman (knitter) and me uncle he were in the shoe trade, he was a clicker…a skilled man…we were very fortunate’