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I started work on 31 July 1972 at Top Rank Film Processing (later known as Napcolour then Colourcare) on Burns Street Mansfield. I earnt £6.25 a week, everyone paid 48p national insurance, I wasn't earning enough to pay income tax. I travelled to work by bus, a journey of about 4 miles and cost 8p each way.
The job involved the processing of people's photographs of their holidays and Christmas etc. I started on packing and went on to do many of the jobs there - printing, film processing, paper processing.
I worked there for 16 years then decided to move on.
August 1988 I went to work at Mansfield Knitwear at Ollerton. This was making knitwear garments for Marks a Spencers. I looked for faults in garments. I never liked the work and left in 1994.
I then studied full time at college for a year before working as a care assistant at Avalon Nursing Home in Forest Town. The wage was £2.95 an hour, while I was there the minimum wage came in at £3.50 an hour. Work as a care assistant was very hard work but I enjoyed it. I worked there for seven and a half years.
In January 2003 I went to work at Eurofilter on Crown Farm Way Mansfield (the old site of Crown Farm Colliery). When I started there I was on the minimum wage which was £4.25 an hour then. We made air filters, mostly for cars, my wage soon went up, then I was earning more money for making filters than looking after the elderly residents in the nursing home and it was easeir work!
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