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Interview with Hilda Wells

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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	You can re-use this metadata record under a Creative Commons Zero ‘no rights reserved’ licence: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Download available	No
Contact us	Please contact EMOHA http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/ for enquiries about this item or to seek permission to use it.
Themes	Work World War II Unions Houskeeping