Bossa Nova Baz posted:

Year I started work  

I was 3 

They could also refuse to employ married women ....

Yogi19 posted:

I remember my mum having a hoover like that

Yes  

Yogi19 posted:

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

Year I started work  

I was 3 

If you were a woman they  used to ask you at a job interview whether you were engaged , or had any plans to get married ....

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

They could also refuse to employ married women ....

Yes, and they were happy to employ married women during the war but then dumped them to give jobs to men. 

Well done to Paul

Yogi19 posted:

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

They could also refuse to employ married women ....

Yes, and they were happy to employ married women during the war but then dumped them to give jobs to men. 

Yogi19 posted:

Well done to Paul

velvet donkey posted:

They've got a bit more to moan about these days other than West Indians..

Yes

That girl looked white

Yogi19 posted:

That girl looked white

Yes  

My parents were nurses  

It's great that they've got people who lived through it, to give them an inkling of what it was really like.

Yogi19 posted:

It's great that they've got people who lived through it, to give them an inkling of what it was really like.

Yes  

velvet donkey posted:

Disgrace, and I can believe it   

Yes ,

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

My parents were nurses  

A lot of nurses on my mum's side of the family - I didn't get the calling 

I use to like reggae  

velvet donkey posted:

Disgrace, and I can believe it   

Shocking 

velvet donkey posted:

Barley wine     

there's a blast from the past ....I had some right hangovers on that !!

Yogi19 posted:

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

My parents were nurses  

A lot of nurses on my mum's side of the family - I didn't get the calling 

Me neither ....it jumped a generation  

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

My parents were nurses  

A lot of nurses on my mum's side of the family - I didn't get the calling 

Me neither ....it jumped a generation  

Thanks fir the company ...I enjoyed that  

Thanks for the company, Baz and Velvet.

velvet donkey posted:

I'll no be asking any of you two for an intravenous drip then.

 

Pretty good - night both     

You'd be like a sieve by the time we got the drip in.

Yogi19 posted:

velvet donkey posted:

I'll no be asking any of you two for an intravenous drip then.

 

Pretty good - night both     

You'd be like a sieve by the time we got the drip in.

Yeah, and we'd be on the floor  

Baz, are you watching?

Yes 

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

Yes 

70s 

That decor!

Radiogram 

Yogi19 posted:

That decor!

Eye watering 

We had an old fashioned radiogram in the 60's

Bossa Nova Baz posted:

Yogi19 posted:

That decor!

Eye watering 

Yes

I'd not have thought that 

Brixton was a very run down area in those days 

Those blue kitchen units 

I had one of those coffee pots 

Yogi19 posted:

Those blue kitchen units 

Yes