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I was a weaver since I was 15. I left school and went right into the mills.
I was in the mills for about 20 years.
But I think I had volunteered here, as I said already, for about 20 years.
But all in all, 40 years working in the mill.
See, if you're a weaver, you're a weaver. If you're a winder, you're a winder.
You stick it in the machine, you know.
But since I came in here, I've learned every machine.
Every machine in here is what was in the mills, but they're all miniature.
There are some of it harder than others to pick up, but I've learned the whole of them. I love it.
Cos I work the loom now, I'm in control of it.
It's not being in the mill where you have to do and get your cloth off.
You've got a target to reach and it's stressful.
But here I enjoy it because I'm at my own speed.
I can do what I like and take as long as I like.
There's no boss and you have to do. That's what I love about this place.
I love meeting the people.
I think I've met every walk of life in here, from lawyers, to coosies, to mechanics,
to joiners, kids from school, people from all over the world.
And that's what I love.
I meet people I would never, ever have met just being on the street or something like that.
Quite a lot of people here. I met Michael Pichello. He's a gentleman.
Big hands.
The only place you would see on all these railway journeys,
he wasn't able to do anything in here.
Cos these hands are big. You couldn't see the scissors.
I think he was frightened of the noise of this.
And the noise of that would frighten anybody.
I've met lots of celebrities in here, Brian Cox.
I've been on the one show, Cary Grant, The Red Hair Girl.
Yes, I've met quite a lot of people.
It's fun. For me, to my age, it's fun.
I come from the Duke Park family. I'm the last of my family.
My mum was in the Duke Mills at 12. She went in 1914.
Cos the schools were all closed for the First World War.
She wasn't quite 13, but they took her in and she was a spinner.
My mum was only 14, 17. I don't know what size she was at 12,
but she was in the Mills, and my gran was in the Mills, and all my family had been in the Mills.
My dad got killed on the shaft, so there were no guards.
He got his arm caught, and he died when he was younger.
We were all kids. I was four, the youngest, 18 months.
Older's only 12, so we had no option.
Whenever you're old, the age is all in the Mills, and that's all we left.
I left school on a Friday, and I went into the weeding on the Monday.
I didn't know what to do in the Mills.
People talk about machines, but my school friends said,
we'll be weavers, and we hadn't got a clue what we were talking about.
That's how weaver come weaver.
She didn't stick it, but I stuck it. My mum wouldn't let me go.
