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THE CHRONOLOGY

MY FATHER'S
FAMILY TREE

MY MOTHER'S
FAMILY TREE


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 on 30th December.

  • 1964 - I leave Bray's on 8th May and start at Owen Jepson’s on the 11th May.

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

  • 1968 - I leave Jepsons on the 23rd August and start at the Midland Bank on the 26th August.

  • 1969 - I leave the Midland Bank on the 10th January and start at the Tao Clinic on the 13th January. I leave three months later on the 19th April. On the 22nd April, I start at Pearl Assurance. In October, I get married.

  • 1970 - I leave Pearl Assurance on the 9th January and start at National Motor on the 12th January.

  • 1973 - I leave National Motor on the 28th February and start at Fenchurch Group on the 3rd March. I stay there until the 16th November, then move to Zurich Insurance on the 19th November.

  • 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 on the 10th December, and start work at Lloyds and Scottish, Sheffield on the 13th December.

  • 1980 - In April I move from Derbyshire to Hertfordshire. I start work at Pegasus in the City on the 13th May.

  • 1981 - I leave Pegasus on the 13th February, and start at Federated Insurance, Stevenage on the 15th February.

  • 1984 - I am made redundant from Federated (now Allstate) on the 30th November.

  • 1985 - I begin work at Minster Insurance on the 7th January. I leave on the 30th August, and move to A.G.L. Associates on the 2nd September.

  • 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 on the 10th October.

  • 1995 - I leave Estée Lauder on the 11th February. I re-join Clinique as an Associate on the 29th March.

  • 1996 - 29th March — my year as an Associate comes to an end and I am unemployed for a few weeks. I start with Hill House Hammond on the 20th 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. On the 18th September, my father dies.

  • 2001 – after 37½ years, I finally finish office work on 31st 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.


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