When I left school, which was in nineteen thirty, it was a bad time for  employment, there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people  and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane  Alexander works, it was er er Squires's were, er it's a family er  er concern, and erm it was the first  offer I'd had for employment so I took it.