Happy New Year
January 14, 2012
The first of our new stories for the 2012 come from a married couple living in Thetford. Mr F. worked in sales for the Co-op and other businesses based in the Thetford area including selling Walls sausages and pies to shops around Norfolk and Suffolk. He then went into the family recycling firm and built the business up until it was operating a thousand skips. He ended his career working for Breckland Council facilities team.
Mrs F. trained as a secretary and worked for an optician in Bury and then for a well-known Thetford building, undertakers and commercial business. She took on all the responsible work, including arranging funerals, working out wages and paying them before the days of calculators or computers, and there were no facilities such as canteens or washrooms.
Find the stories at: www.wisearchive.co.uk/projects/Retail/248/ (Sales and recycling) and www.wisearchive.co.uk/projects/general_employment_conditions/245 (A very different working world).
