Recorded Memories

O'Rouke Sisters Interview. December 2000.

 

Three London Girls: Working life at the Argee 1940-1974 ‘Pierre made heaps of difference here, he was a wonderful man’

‘We used to work with our coats on…being so cold in the factory it made you hungry…went across to bakery shop – we used to get big lumps of cake, it was grand’

‘Kids couldn’t wait to join the Argee workforce…we took on so many learners’

‘Our girls used to get an attendance bonus, apart from the work, at the end of 13 weeks…a nice bit for some of them in those days…to encourage them’