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Show LE LIE ERI TEA DALE ugu t 16, 2001 LE : I went back to that job I had. When the war broke out I told you I was working a a salesman for Mel braze Cakes and Pies doing a good job enjoying it. Since I hadn t worked there for a year they were only compelled to take me back for six months. If you'd worked over a year they took you back for a year. But I hadn't been there a year before the war, so they gave me employment for six months, and then I was out. The guys that they had taken on were older guys during the war, and they didn't want to push them out, so they pushed us out. So I went on the newspapers up in Fleet Street delivering newspapers to the news agents; night work. I was on that for about a year or so. And then I got tired of that because I didn't want to leave my wife on her own. And, so, I went back to Powell's, the wines and spirits. I was in there one day, and I said, "I'd like to come back." He said, "Yeah, we'll take you back." I went back there three times to that place. So, you know, eventually I was actually working there when we moved from London. I got a job at London airport, and we moved there because my daughter was courting a guy that lived just around the comer in Brittan. And I got this job working for a Hertz at London airport as a chauffeur. And I worked with them for six years. We bought a little bungalow there. And you'd go out in the garden, and it was so noisy. Planes were coming over, and you couldn't hear. You couldn't talk to your neighbor. And my daughter got married in '68, and my son was living away from home. So there was only the two of us. And I said to my wife, "How about moving from here?'' And she says, "Moving? Where are we going?" I said, "I like going down the coast." We always talked about going down the coast when we retired. We were in our fifties. And I said, "Let's go down and just have a look around." We went down near South 42 |
