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THE CHRONOLOGY


2. THE CHRONOLOGY


  • 1947 - November: I am born.

  • 1952 - I start Shire Oak School in September.

  • 1959 - I finish at Shire Oak in June, and start at Lawnswood in September.

  • 1963 - I finish school and start work at George Bray’s in December.

  • 1964 - I leave Bray's and start at Owen Jepson’s.

  • 1965 - Trevor and I get engaged on the 15th December.

  • 1968 - I leave Jepsons and start at the Midland Bank.

  • 1969 - In January I leave the Midland Bank and start at the Tao Clinic. In April, I leave the Tao and start work at Pearl Assurance. In October, I get married.

  • 1970 - I leave Pearl Assurance in January and start at National Motor.

  • 1973 - I leave National Motor in February and start work at Fenchurch Group. I stay there until November, then move to Zurich Insurance.

  • 1975 - December: I leave Leeds to live in Dronfield, Derbyshire (near Sheffield,) but still travel to Leeds to work for a year.

  • 1976 - I leave Zurich in Leeds in December, and start work at Lloyds and Scottish Finance, Sheffield.

  • 1980 - In April I move from Derbyshire to Hertfordshire. I start work at Pegasus in the City in May.

  • 1981 - I leave Pegasus in February, and start work at Federated Insurance, Stevenage.

  • 1984 - I am made redundant from Federated (now Allstate) in November.

  • 1985 - I begin work at Minster Insurance in New Barnet in January. I leave in August, and move to A.G.L. Associates, Stevenage.

  • 1993 - I leave A.G.L. and join Clinique as a Consultant. I do Basic Training in London in July ’93. I work in Debenhams, Bedford.

  • 1994 - Our Silver Wedding Anniversary comes around and we go to Hawaii. I leave Clinique and Debenhams in October and re-train as a Beauty Advisor for Estée Lauder. I join John Lewis, Welwyn Garden City.

  • 1995 - I leave Estée Lauder in February. I re-join Clinique as an Associate.

  • 1996 - My year as an Associate comes to an end and I am unemployed for a few weeks. I start with Hill House Hammond in May. Trevor retires from the Halifax on the 31st May. I re-join Clinique as a Saturday Associate in August.

  • 1999 - Our thirtieth wedding anniversary comes by.

  • 2000 - My web-site is posted in August. In September, my father dies.

  • 2001 – after 37½ years, I finally finish office work in May. I am retired, but still do odd days for Clinique.

  • 2002 - I launch The Lawnswood High School Alumnae website on 21st March. It is a website for the Old Girls of my school.

  • 2011 - I finally retire from Clinique. I am no longer working at all.

  • 2012 - After 32 years we leave Hertfordshire and move to Norfolk. In July my Mother dies.


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