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You knocked you fingers about and that. Split your nails. But split \u2018em good that they ain’t ever grow right again afterwards. There were nothing without burns and that on your hands. It was normal, everyday occurrence.
[Reg, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it wasn\u2019t easy work. When you work at Morlands you didn\u2019t have no energy to do anything else.
[Steve and Reg, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first job was when sheep skins came in from the slaughter house, it was pretty disgusting, they smelt terrible but they had layers of salt in between them to preserve them. It was called rounding – just taking off all the untidy bits, the odd ear, leg. It was pretty gross really! Then you had to put them on a tidier stack and chuck all the unwanted bits in a bin. So that was a bit of a rude awakening!
[Tim, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Skins\n
Skins in the yard, near Baily’s cottages
Photo: Charlie Down<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The skins were in one place, where they used to come in from the markets, and they used to round \u2018em off. All their bits and pieces, legs \u2018n arms \u2018n hooves. It was a stinky smelly job, know what I mean?
[Terry, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I done most of the heavy work to tell you the truth. I took skins out the paddles, which is cold water and they weren\u2019t just one or two, they were hundreds, hundred and fifty, all according how big they were. Paddles only took so much. That was the heaviest, that was the hardest work, but you know the money in consideration was pretty good. But you had to work for it didn\u2019t you?
[Terry, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skins used to come in down Glastonbury station, and they brought in this load one day, and when we went in in the morning the whole floor was covered in weevils – all these little insects, horrible bloody things and so they had to fumigate the whole building, get rid of these weevils, yeah I remember that happening one day.
[Jim, Baily’s and Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you dropped behind, you couldn\u2019t never catch it up. But yeah, it was hard work.
[Jim, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Paddles\n
Paddles in the Columbia dye shop, 1960
Photo: John Morland<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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