| Description | DOB: Unknown
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He had lived in Dukinfield, Cheshire, with his family.
Paul had suffered from infantile paralysis.
When he was 12 years old, he passed the examination to leave school and take up employment.
His family collectively moved to Colchester.
Married in 1918.
His first job was in a rope and twine factory.
Later, he was apprenticed to Messrs. Wiles & Son, Trinity Printing Works, for six years.
Following his apprenticeship, he worked at printing shops in Clacton (Abraham’s Quick’s), Ware (George Price and Son), Portsmouth (two locations), and the town of Warwick.
Needing to look after his father who had gotten ill, he went back to Colchester and secured a job there behind a stationer’s shop, Poysers, followed by Dutton’s in Chelmsford and Newport, the latter of which came after his father’s passing.
After 1912, he ended up at several printing locations including the Chatham Observer’s shop in Chatham, Salvation Army Printing Works in St Albans, Redhill, then back to St Albans.
During the war he helped run a canteen in Sheerness, and continued working with an army caterer.
He worked in the chemical department for Burroughs and Wellcome in Dartford, later working in a separate printing place near Dartford, as a compositor, and then joined the Reading Box the following March.
He detailed a lot about the Printing industry, including different roles and the evolution of its technology.
There were mentions of striking, including the strikes over a female operator, the 1911 London comps’ strike as well as the General Strike of 1926.
He worked in both the First World War as a caterer, followed by being a clerk in the local D.C.R.E’s office in the Second World War.
He liked to cycle and enjoyed the thought of exploring as much of England as he could.
He was an active member for three different printing unions, including the T.A., the L.S.C. and the A.C.P.
His interest for literature stemmed from a correspondence course in English Grammar and Composition, which he had taken in Oxford.
This is a typed entry, with occasional handwritten notes/corrections, and in total there are 15 pages.
Education, Apprentice, Printing, Wages, Strikes, Unions, Literature |