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 up spraying shoes in differnt colours & put me in a garden shed with no extraction fan & I started coughing up black rubbish off my lungs,so I left there & went to live in devon.H.H.Paynes did not have a very good safety record for its workers my pay was £1.10 shillings for a 48 hours 15/16 years old at the time,Another girl was scalpped on a machine at one off there shops in Birmingham,The only good thing I got out of Paynes I meet my First wife there who worked at The Cotteridge shop & was moved to the warehouse & I had 24 years off marriage with her till she passed away.I did sue Paynes & got a settlement for there neglet for there safety rules