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27-07-2012, 22:53
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Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
Anyone got any incidences of places where it was easy to get a job in the old days (50's 60's 70's to the present day), any time - perhaps part-time jobs, student jobs are where the employer was always looking for new staff, as possibly a high turn over.
I recall working at Whites Garage, Burnley Road - which was a Toyota dealer ship, used to clean and fit new cars as they came in and also work on the petrol pumps. Was good for students and part-timers!
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27-07-2012, 23:00
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
Saturday girls at Woolies when I was at the High School in the sixties.
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28-07-2012, 01:35
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
Slingers went down said hello started the next day
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28-07-2012, 07:49
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
The Brick yards, The Mills, Blythes, The dairys, All were dead easy to get in, in 60s, worked at most of em. Anyone who wanted to work,could get a job No Problem.
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28-07-2012, 09:00
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
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The Brick yards, The Mills, Blythes, The dairys, All were dead easy to get in, in 60s, worked at most of em. Anyone who wanted to work,could get a job No Problem.
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The first time I was out of work cashy was when my health failed me, before that it was 7 days a week, and whats more loved every minute off it
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28-07-2012, 09:18
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
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The first time I was out of work cashy was when my health failed me, before that it was 7 days a week, and whats more loved every minute off it
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Coal mines in the seventies was pretty easy to get into but only limited jobs like conveyor man. Or a button man as we called them. In Coventry when the Car factories were laying people off, they would come to Cov Mine and would bring the car factories attitude. "One man one job" didnt work in the mines. 1 chap told me his job at the Jag was head rest fitter. But they had to get somebody else as an Head rest tester. These guys didnt last long when they were given a big shovel.
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28-07-2012, 09:37
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
Joseph Arnolds (Express Gifts) and Holland Pies - had many jobs for mums - 5pm until
10pm- a great way for Mums to be at home with the children all day, then it was Dads turn to take over at 5.00
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28-07-2012, 09:38
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
The mines were pretty easy to get in the 60s, Bank Hall even took me on.
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28-07-2012, 09:45
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
Karrimore though I never worked there, Asda, Metcalfes, Blythes Chemicals.
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28-07-2012, 09:54
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
nori as i remember, worked there, must have been a half dozen times, worked summer on the fairgrounds, winter in the nori,
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28-07-2012, 12:17
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
I walked out of a few jobs in the sixties and walked straight into another.
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28-07-2012, 18:54
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
Anyone ever work at Tattersalls Window Cleaners - they had a high staff turnover - I was there about 2 weeks.
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28-07-2012, 19:12
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
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Anyone got any incidences of places where it was easy to get a job in the old days (50's 60's 70's to the present day), any time - perhaps part-time jobs, student jobs are where the employer was always looking for new staff, as possibly a high turn over.
I recall working at Whites Garage, Burnley Road - which was a Toyota dealer ship, used to clean and fit new cars as they came in and also work on the petrol pumps. Was good for students and part-timers!
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I wonder if you worked for two good pals of mine, the Bentley brothers, they ran the garage about that time but Gilbraith was the actual owner.
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28-07-2012, 19:26
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
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I wonder if you worked for two good pals of mine, the Bentley brothers, they ran the garage about that time but Gilbraith was the actual owner.
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I worked there 76 - Gilbraith rings a bell - the manager we worked under was called Tony and I don't recall is surname, is that name familiar?
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28-07-2012, 19:41
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Re: Easy Places to get a Job in Accy!
Yes, Tony Bentley, he lived in the red brick detached house on the right just before Holland's pie works.
At that time Gilbraith owned the garage as well as Accrington garages, The Greyhound, and the one opposite where we kept the lorries and the one across from the Cemetery, I think it is now a bit of a shopping place and the one where the new chemist is being built on Blackburn road next to the Acorn medical place.
They employed a lot of people and there was nearly always a job going.
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