My first Job was for British Railways – by GS

Yes, I left Grey Court at 15 and my first jo bwas with British Railways, you had to go for a medical up in London to make sure you were OK for the job. I started work in 1957 round about late January early February 1957.  I started on the railways at St Margaret’s in East Twickenham and I did platform duty for a bit and went up in the signal boxes and I used to combine the two and sometimes I’d get shunted down to Whitton, sometimes to Twickenham and I did that for almost a year before I sort of left and went into carpentry.