Add to ORKGBrief mention of Braunstone Hall School, Leicester. Recalls father travelling abroad with Stibbes engineering. Describes job as runabout at Jarvis' hosiery, learning to overlock on Wilcox and Gibbs machine, making artificial silk underwear, wages, conditions. Mentions Jarvis moving to W Baker during Second World War (WWII); music while working, sunlamp treatment, making underwear, going to cinema from work. Talks about Anderson shelters, American soldiers, names dances such as 'Palais Glide'. Mentions Baker's adopting a submarine. Describes work at Kempton's, changes due to WWII, reaction to foreign workers while at Hall and Earles'. Brief mention of Kempton's new factory on Burley's Way. Mentions gaining pay rises through union, work outin...