Monday November 7th 1932
Thorogoods 8am. Given a jacket and apron. Window cleaning, shelf scrubbing, sweeping and polishing.
Main job is butter beating. The butter is in 56lb squares. This has to be beaten with a wooden paddle and softened until it is malleable and finally made into pretty 1lb rounds. This work goes on in a grubby basement below the shop, with unpainted walls. The ceiling is only 6 foot high, so, being tall I have to work with slightly stooped head. When ready the trays of butter are carried up a ladder to the shop. We take up trays of 60 or 72 or 84 pound lots, as ordered from above.
Dinner ‑1.20 to 2.35.
Lard packing, sweeping and unpacking more butter boxes. Tea time, 5pm to 5.45. Away 7.30pm. What a job! No time for Cubbing, Police Classes, or evening pleasures. Degrading and tiring. Otherwise O.K.
Main job is butter beating. The butter is in 56lb squares. This has to be beaten with a wooden paddle and softened until it is malleable and finally made into pretty 1lb rounds. This work goes on in a grubby basement below the shop, with unpainted walls. The ceiling is only 6 foot high, so, being tall I have to work with slightly stooped head. When ready the trays of butter are carried up a ladder to the shop. We take up trays of 60 or 72 or 84 pound lots, as ordered from above.
Dinner ‑1.20 to 2.35.
Lard packing, sweeping and unpacking more butter boxes. Tea time, 5pm to 5.45. Away 7.30pm. What a job! No time for Cubbing, Police Classes, or evening pleasures. Degrading and tiring. Otherwise O.K.
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