When we went looking for ETU members who were soldiers in the Great War, it soon became clear that they were proud ANZACS. They were leaders and larrikins, brave men with little recognition. Lest we forget. The Price He Paid The ETU’s Owen Hughes is one of those soldiers who survived the Great War; now,…
In the early hours of Saturday morning two rows of canvas covered stalls are placed along the middle of the widest high street in the North of England. It’s market day in Stockton. The air is icy and the black clouds are fat and heavy looking. It doesn’t seem to matter that snow is…
I left school in September 1965, one month before my sixteenth birthday, and went to work as an apprentice at a heavy engineering firm called Head Wrightson’s. How exciting for me; no longer a school kid, I was working! On my first day at the HW apprentice school, I sat, wide eyed, with fifty other…