Memories Page 5 Big Hugh Brown's daughter, Jennifer, and Elsie Rea |
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| Jennifer McCormick | Photos of 'Big Hugh' Brown |
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| Mr Davidson,
Thank you for your kind words about my father. My mum says he used to scare her at times. She went up on to the factory with him to fix the boilers and he used to jump form one boiler to another, reguardless of his own safety. My father had a heart murmour most of his life which he got from an illness as a child. In the end, the pain of his biopsy caused him to have a heart attack. I am glad that he went that way and did not suffer the cancer the way his older brother did. I don't think I could have watched him in so much pain. I have a few pictures here which I would like you to put on the website if you could. One is of my father on a motorbike. Not sure where that was, but it seemd approprate as he always loved the bikes. The other one is of him with my dog Jet. He used to love coming down to Mountstewart where we live to take the dog for walks and she love to see him. I also have one picture which seemed approprate of him working in the factory at the machines.
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Basic lesson on Map-Reading |
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Hi Charlie, I thought I'd write down a few thoughts of my time at the factory I started work as a typist at Harland and Wolff just five days before my fifteenth birthday. My starting wage was £1.12s.9d. I didn't much like the bus travel to Belfast every morning at 7.30 so, after about eight months, I wrote to Berkshire asking if there were any vacancies in the office. Luckily I was accepted and started work in February 1956. My wage was then £1.15s 0d and the first thing I had to do was attend a training course for a month at the Sumlock school in Belfast - more bus travel!! I worked in the General Office doing various things including switchboard, typing, accounts, calculating and helping with wages.
The new office block was built in 1957 and we moved into much more luxurious surroundings than those we were used to in the old building. The early 1960's saw the introduction of many new and exciting office machines, e.g. a new electronic calculator called ANITA - A New Introduction To Arithmetic. Another was the Telex machine which gave instant messages and we also got a photocoier - anyone who used this will remember how messy it was!! I remained in the General Office until I left in 1965 to have my daughter.
In 1968 I returned on a half day basis, this time working in the Purchasing Office. I was there for several years and in 1975 I moved to the Sales Office. I enjoyed speaking to retailers from all over the British Isles and helping with orders, etc. One day Mr. Reg Lawrie asked me how I was getting on and I said " I'm getting to know if a town is on the right or the left of the map". He replied, "Well, some of us say East or West!".
I enjoyed all of my years at "The Nylon" and made many friends, but unfortuantely it all ended with redundancy in 1984.
Elsie Rea (Lamont)
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