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My working life
By David Bates
At 18, having failed to secure my GCE "A" levels, I spent the summer working in a local supermarket, before starting my first job for Midland Bank in Alperton, near Wembley. My interview was held in York, so I never actually saw the branch of the bank I was to join. Leaving home was a big wrench, and I left at 2.20 pm on the train to York, where I changed to the East Coast mainline to London Kings' Cross Station. I had looked up Ealing Road on a map,and decided to travel to Wembley High Road station and walk down. It was a wet Sunday November evening, 7th November 1971. It became evident that I was at the wrong end of Ealing Road,so I walked the whole length of it down to Alperton. I dis ask someone where the bank was, and that person crossed the road to the opposite side, before answering me. Perhaps he thought I was going to mug him or something, but it ceratinly made me feel very uneasy, about what I had embarked on. Scarborough , where I had lived all my life until then, is very small in comparison. I had never lived away from home, so this was all a bit scary. It did turn out to be the best thing I ever did. I arrived for work the next morning and set about learning what the "real world" was like after school. |
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