Martha Sloan
When I left school at 14, I went to work in a leather shop in the High Street which sold leather hand bags, suitcases, purses, wallets and umbrellas. I had to deliver one or two things. After I was there, I realised that I was the message girl! However, I quite enjoyed that because it let me get to places that I would never have got to before and I also learned about the street in Paisley. I was there for a few years and that was during the war and then all of a sudden I got called up to do war work. I suppose I could have gone into the forces, but my parents wouldn't hear of that. So I got a choice of a ward maid in the local hospital, a bus conductress and a few other, but they were outlandish jobs to me because I had never worked anywhere else, but this shop. My father said ,
'There's no way you're going to work on the buses!'

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