[Mancie]

I left school in the 70's and the jobs scence was decent..you could walk around to local business or the even the larger manufacturing companies and ask for a job and sometimes be employed..all that changed when Thatcher got in..the then large manufactuers like the engineering went down hill and the small businesses could pick and choose the youngsters they employed in no future jobs like selling Xmas cards and such..any building work was all of a sudden run by a near enough closed shop of agencies..from a working town point of view Accrington died