After seven years there was a bit of the start of the depression of course and from there I went up to various factories in Yorkshire, Leeds, Bradford, Keighley and then I came down to Leicester. Then of course this job came at Arthur Bolsworth's at Hinckley. I was able, without a family, to move around, I had no commitments you see.

Everybody knew of Hinckley, it didn't matter where you was, what Hinckley did everybody followed suit. If Hinckley was a bit quiet everybody else was quiet. All the new attachments, all the new styles, they all started in Hinckley - whatever Hinckley was doing everybody else was doing the same. Their methods were more up-to-date which I could see was the reason why what Hinckley said was the thing to do. Their ideas were better, their methods were better.

The Hollow, Earl Shilton

The best job I ever had in my life - the ICI fine jerseys at Shilton. They made these huge body machines, not stockings, they made fabric. I loved that and of course I'd been in the trade, I'd been on the bench and so forth and they sort of welcomed me with open arms because a lot of them were from college. There's a big difference between working in college and going out in the open world - know what I mean? There's a limit to what they can teach you - they can give you a certain amount of knowledge in college regarding machines but the thing is a lot of things that happen to machines don't happen to them while they're in college. Therefore you're in a mess you see. I used to say to some of them - they used to have these big motors come out and bearings had to be taken out, proper tools had to be used to get the bearings off, and I used to say, 'You know you're safer with a revolver than doing that!' I've seen it change from a girl working four machines and working hard, to a man with new ideas in hosiery, work 60.