Philip Ledger
Philip talks about working at Unwins

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I went down there myself and I got the job and it was an apprenticeship and I always remember when I first started it was twenty five shillings a week and when I signed apprenticeship forms it went down to nineteen and sixpence which wasn’t very much money. However, it went up about five shillings each year and in the finish - it was a seven-year apprenticeship, which I honestly thought afterwards was cheap labour, but they cut two years off, or the government did, so you only had to do a five-year apprenticeship.

Unwins had allotments, they had all sorts of things. They used to have their sports day out there and the Unwins used to turn up with their trilby on and their gloves on because she didn’t like people shaking hands with her unless she had her gloves on. This was Mrs. Unwin, yeah. And everybody used to flock down there and they used to do the running and bicycle race and you name it. That was held on Unwins sports field.