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Interview with Hilda Wells
Description
Title
Interview
with
Hilda
Wells
Interviewee
Wells, Hilda
Summary
Recalls
work
at a
hospital
in
Norfolk
as a
ward
maid
before
moving
to
Leicester
in
domestic
service
as a
nanny
, then
housekeeper
.
Describes
duties
as a
housekeeper
and how these
became
more
difficult
with
evacuees
being
billeted
during
the
Second
World
War
.
Recalls
decision
to
move
into
industry
and
war
work
,
first
at
Vickers
Armstrong
, then the
General
Electric
Company
(GEC)
.
Describes
other
moves
to
Gent
, and
Partridge
Wilson
,
where
she
stayed
for
twenty
five
years
.
Describes
making
aircraft
skins
at
Vickers
Armstrong
and the
shifts
worked
.
Talks
about
becoming
a
trade
union
member
and how
work
was
broken
down
to
reduce
the
skill
needed
.
Talks
about
time
and
motion
being
introduced
in the
1950s
Subject
Work
Unions
World War II
Duration
00:30:00
Location
United Kingdom -- England -- Leicester
Place name
Leicester
Type
Audio
Date created
1985
Periods covered
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
Town of birth
Norfolk
Interviewee's occupation
Engineering factory worker
Housekeeper
Ward maid
Interviewee's marital status
Single
Interviewer
Simpson
,
T
.
Recording date
18/06/1985
Recording location
Interviewee's home
Language
English
Original format
Tape
Collection
East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA)
EMOHA collection No.
LO/179/130
Rights
You may use this recording in accordance with our licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
Metadata Licence
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http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/
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Themes
Work
World War II
Unions
Houskeeping
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