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I remember typing pools...

Steve Bridger

I remember my first day at work. The summer of 1981. County Hall. The smell of polished corridors and trolleys laden three-feet high with leaver arch files and buff folders. I opened a door and there it was: The Typing Pool. Page 3 of The Sun were always plastered on the walls of the printing unit whenever I was asked to make errands. We still had a few discussion threads on that topic in the early days here - in 2004!


And I've seen Made in Dagenham, the movie!


I only mention this as the CIPD published a report called Work Audit today, a fascinating look at how the world of work has changed
in Britain since 1952.


I thought we could share our own compelling vignettes of social history comparing changes in the way we work.


What do you reckon?


Steve

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  • Hi Tony,


    Ah - my first job - I remember the Gestetner Stencil Duplicating machines too, and the fact that we had to keep the stencils after they had been used so that we wouldn't have to retype them to print more copies off (I did work for a money conscious local authority at the time) - the red liquid you used to correct and seal mistakes, the inky fingers, the missing middles of o, b, p, q, 0, 6, 9,  etc so they showed as black blobs when you used them again - fun times!!


    Viv


     


     

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  • Hi Tony,


    Ah - my first job - I remember the Gestetner Stencil Duplicating machines too, and the fact that we had to keep the stencils after they had been used so that we wouldn't have to retype them to print more copies off (I did work for a money conscious local authority at the time) - the red liquid you used to correct and seal mistakes, the inky fingers, the missing middles of o, b, p, q, 0, 6, 9,  etc so they showed as black blobs when you used them again - fun times!!


    Viv


     


     

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