| Year 1951 I left school and a friend who was working
in the mill said she would take me for an interview. We went on
the mill bus from househillwood. It was the first time I had been
to Neilston and I loved the journey and the scenery. I stayed in
the gatehouse until the personnel officer and office staff started
work. Mr Willie Cosh was the gateman and in the short time I was
there I had told him my life story all 15 years of it.
The personnel officer gave me a start in the balling flat, My foreman
was a Mr Johnny Graham and a Miss Isa Davidson was the desk clerk
who instructed me in the job. I was terrified of the big machines
but I only had to weigh the end product balls of thread. I worked
there for three months and my first wage the sum of £2.6.8 after
three months I got transferred to the general office as office girl
in charge of the mail and going to the canteen for the morning tea
and afternoon tea for the staff, also delivering books so on to
the flats, climbing all those stairs.
I must tell about the time
I was sent up to the post office for stamps and I made a visit to
St Thomas's church, my boss Mr Gratton must have been worried about
me, I told where I had been I think he was speechless because he
didn't say a word but I got a message not to do that again. I stayed
in the office for seven and a half years. I left to go to work in
Weir's of Cathcart where I left to get married and go to Australia.
I returned from Australia in 1964 and bought a mill house, now I just look out my window and there is the mill. I returned to work in the mill(Prewaxing Department) in 1973, Mr Mechan was my foreman, again I left to work in the Victoria Hospital(Geriatric Unit). Then I heard that a job was coming up again in the mill office so back I went and stayed 18 years enjoying every minute, I will never forget my experience and working life in the mill.
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