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    Paynes shoe repairs

    Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you I dont remember Albert plant I worked there from 1958 to 1961
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    Paynes shoe repairs

    Hello Val.rember was 15/16 years old & paynes did employ a lot off youngsters in those days,so I would not have been paid the full rates,I started proceedings in 1960/1 & in 1964 was awarded £1,100.which was enough to buy a 3 bedroom terraced house in those days, My wife Carol was working in...
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    Paynes shoe repairs

    Sorry I made a mistake on my weekly pay it should have been £2.10s per week not as stated in my previous posting of £1.10s
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    Paynes shoe repairs

    I used to work at the Vicaridge Road Kings Heath shop in 1959 & lost my right eye working there with a cobblers knife they then moved me to the factory in Mosley & I worked in the factory/warehouse on the leather presses & I then lost my thumb & smashed up another finger,They then they started...
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