Re: British goods
Thanks Lettie. I worked in the cotton industry until 1967......and I loved that job. It was noisy, it was dusty.....but I liked creating something that was going to be used.
I would have stayed in that job probably for life.....but David Whitehead, the company that I worked for, were forced to move lock stock and barrel to South Africa........some of the single young fellas who had no family ties went with them. I was just married and couldn't think of doing that.
I had to look at what was going to be best for me and my family...chose nursing and the rest is history....but I haven't forgotten how towns like Accrington were devastated when the mills closed. Whole families depended on manufacturing for their livelihoods.
When I retired I spent a good deal of time in Australia......there you could buy Autralian made goods very easily....and most people felt unpatriotic if they didn't do so......but if you tried to buy a souvenir that was Made in Australia, you would be very hard pressed to find one...unless you bought aboriginal artefacts of art(and even these were being replicated in China).
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