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Hillfoot.

The next five years of my working life were to be spent at Hillfoot Steels in Sheffield. Hillfoot are a major independent stockholder of engineering steels and producer of forged products. Established way back with one forging hammer, they have consistently grown until they were recently bought out/taken over by Murrays from Scotland.

I was taken on to drive a sideloader.

 The steel was in

So Today I started work on a new site for Jimbo. This new site will be for the Raceing team that Jimbo is working for. Check out www.radicalracingforums.com

Back to the steel.

A short period of unemployment followed. The turning point came on a day when I went for two interviews. One was a driving job, driving a Transit pick-up for a plating (chrome plating etc) firm. The other was  for a stainless steel stockholders, working in the warehouse.

I was offered the driving job and having been rung and told I hadn't got the other one I naturally accepted

Marriage and Morrisons.

Like I said, I met my first wife whilst working voluntarily for a Citizens Advice Bureau. We used to go for a drink at lunchrtimes and evenings and sometimes she'd stop over at my poxy bedsit. The inevitable happened and she fell pregnant which meant that me being me, a wedding was arranged. I moved in with her and her parents and three weeks before AJ was born I started

My next proper job didn't come along for more than a year, but what prompted me to apply was an experience, for that is the only way I can describe it, at Lincoln Theatre Royal.

I got chatting to a fella in a pub, his name was Art Walker, he smoked Capstan Full Strength and lots of them so he's probably no longer with us. Through him I found out that the Theatre Royal was looking for a couple of

The working life of Timbo commenced in 1976 when I left Castle Hills Secondary Modern in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

 Hired and fired.

My very first job was at a packing factory near Lincoln. They picked us up by coach from Gainsborough, and shipped us over there en masse. There were several other school-leavers like me, and we all thought it was great because we were earning money. Comparable