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Originally Posted by steeljack
Alan , whats sad about this thread, and the Howard and Bullough thead is how many jobs/futures for young people in the area have been lost by the closure of these companies and others , it used to be a natural for a 15 yr old coming out of a local Secondary Modern to apply to one of the local engineering works for an apprenticeship , knowing they would get a good training and day release to the local Tech for furthur education , where the hell have all these skilled tradesmen gone? , Most (like yourself) have left the country looking for a better life , in my view sucesive (sp) British Govts. never valued what they had and threw away a generation
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I couldn't have put it better. I left my local secondary school at 15 and went straight into my craft apprenticeship with the said English Electric Company where lifelong skills were acquired and friendships forged that survive to this day. Although I left engineering at age-23 for a police career, I have always valued the life lessons learned through my apprenticeship under the watchful eye of my elders which, again, is something much lacking in today's disrespectful, throwaway society. What on Earth has happened to this once great country of ours?