I earned £10 per week, but my wife and I were lucky in that an aunt of hers left her money which topped the little we had saved for a deposit. We also had a good solicitor with "connections".

Mike,you must have had a good job.I earned £12 a week and couldn't get a mortgage for a house on Hundred Acres in1963.

In 1969, I attended an interview for the post of Personnel Officer at Moss Gear, Tyburn, who, I believe were the main competitors of Salisbury Transmissions. The interview went well and I was informed that the job was mine subject to the General Manager's approval. The following week, I reported for the second interview and was told that the General Manager was in a union meeting and would see me when it was finished. An hour and a half later, without any apology, he started the interview, obviously in a bad mood and not having perused my CV. He picked out one item which mentioned that I had established a sports and social club at my previous company and muttered that he would not be interested in that and finished the interview after 10 minutes.


Having had no reply after two weeks, I telephoned and was told that I had not got the job. However, he did me a favour because, two weeks later, I landed a great job with a drop forging company in Cradley Heath working with lovely black country folk and the Tyburn factory closed soon afterwards.


For those who are wondering what this diatribe has to do with Salisbury Transmissions, the answer is that I originally incorrectly thought my interview was with them, and then, not wanting to libel what was probably a perfectly good company, I tried to delete this message but was unable to, so I modified it instead.

Judith


You would need to be up there every day taking photos to complete a full record of the changes to this area over the last 20/30 years or so.

I know.  I walk through it on the way into work every day.  At this point in time I'm doubting whether it'll be 'finished' 

I should have said "larger canal systems" came along . . .