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Description: | Gerry Marfleet (b 1920) grew up in Leyton in the 1920s and 1930s. Here, in conversation with Lynda Pearce of the "Up the Manor" project, he speaks of his life immediately after leaving school at the age of 14. Mr. Marfleet left school with a poor report from the headmaster, and went to work in the same factory as his father, on a salary of 12/6d a week. Such low rates of pay for boys of 14 were common at this time, as was the practice described here of young people living at home handing over their salaries to their parents and receiving pocket money. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | work Public services Leisure | Temporal: | 2008 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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