Interview about childhood in Wolverton and working at McCorquodales.
In this interview Len Squire reminisces about Wolverton and working at McCorquodales from 1921 when he started his apprenticeship. The printers had already been in operation for seventy five years and it was the largest employer of women in Wolverton. There was a high turnover of female workers, as the majority of women, including his wife, didn’t continue working once they were married. However, he recalls ‘there was a small nucleus of women who during the First World War 1914-1918 went into the printing trade, but as the war finished… as they retired or died… there was an agreement that they would not be replaced’. He started as a compositor and remembers that women were not allowed to be compositors; he recalls it was ‘one of the most difficult trades’.
Creator
Squire, Len
Extent
1 audio tape cassette
Contributor
Broadhurst, Margaret
Reference number
ALC/016/001
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