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Recollections
Decorating
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Thank you to Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland for his
memories of work in Edinburgh between leaving school in 1945 and pursuing
a Military Career in 1952.
Here, Ed describes his first employment. |
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"Living in Wardie, I
attended Trinity Academy. I left the school around 23rd May
1945, before the end of term, to start work, entering the
tradesman's world."
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Livery Stables
I was apprenticed to my uncle,
Peter Greenhill, who was a Master Painter with a workshop at
Inverleith Terrace Lane just off Tanfield.
It
was a former livery stable owned, in the 30's, by a Mr Dunbar who
exercised his horses in Inverleith Park and hired them out to the
"gentry" of Inverleith area. Peter Greenhill took over the
premises when Dunbar failed back in 1938.
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Industry Exam
Being of family, I was
encouraged to learn a trade as so many servicemen were being
de-mobbed. Even before the War ended jobs were becoming hard
to get.
So I worked away as a
prospective "painter" until I had, under the terms of my Indenture,
to sit an Industry Exam by the Scottish Painters Federation, when it
was discovered I was red/green color blind. Exit Ed from the
decorating trade at the end of September 45!"
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Ed Thomson,
Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland: April 25, 2006 |
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