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Everyday – and this is not being big headed – but I used to go home proud that I\u2019d got through it, you know. I didn\u2019t moan and groan \u2018cos I knew somebody else\u2019d take it.
[Terry, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was my first job and it opened me to a whole new world, dealing with people all over the place, using my languages, doing French and German shorthand, with the two export managers. There were a lot of customers: you wrote letters to customers, there was no telephone, no mobiles and things.
[Jackie, Morlands and Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex Cecil Maine engraving moulds at Morlands, 1950s
Photo: Terry Maine<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Phyllis Taylor making a coat for iceskater Robin Cousins
Photo: Gillian Baldwin<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

You wouldn\u2019t think, well they went in with all this fat on, and three or four times you put the thing through the machine, it come out silky smooth. It was beautiful.
[Terry, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie and Alice Marsh retired in 1976. Their children John and Mary also worked at Baily’s
Photo: Ann Morgan<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n\n\n\n
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Oh yeah, it was good. In those days, those days, you had a job, you were willing to work for a job.
[Reg, Morlands]<\/sub>
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It was the fact you had a job, you did your job as best as you could.
[Julia, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sawdust seasoning was more or less like a boy\u2019s job. When you came from school, you had a couple years if you come there, you came, and then you went on to more of a man\u2019s job.
[Steve, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We just kept ourselves to ourselves really, but we all knew what we were doing \u2013 the aim and the end product, you know.
[Terry, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Albie and Lilian Parsons receiving a gift on Albie’s retirement.
He was a stoker – and apparently also a joker – at Morlands
Photo: Tracy Willcox<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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