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level examinations and most of us did not pass anything we
th
were consigned to a newly created “5 Remove” for the
following academic year when “A” and “B” classes would find
themselves in the sixth form!
By Easter I had found a job that interested me with the local
‘Standard’ newspaper group and finally began full time
employment, still without any “paper” qualifications.
At home Mother and Father were still fighting frequently,
mother would disappear to her bed if she got the worse of the
argument and anything planned for the day or week end would
just fall apart. Grandmother was still looking after the lodgers
and Sister Jane had begun her secondary education at the local
High School for girls.
Picture of the Lincolnshire Standard Head office building in
Boston’s Wide Bargate. I was to spend six years here in my first job!
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