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Nissen hut photo.

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Susan: Currently works as a registered child-minder

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Susan: Well I was born in what they call a NIssen Hut which was what they put up after the war.. It was like a half circle a dome, like a prefab and…Basically we had two bedrooms I remember, and kitchen, like a kitchen cum diner which was what they put up for people after the war cos of their properties all being bombed. And that’s where `I was born. There are pictures of the Nissen hut. I will find them out for you.

Eve: That would be good. Which road was that?

Susan: Oh I can’t think but it was just off Butchers Road…cos I’ve always lived in that sort of area. And then when I was eighteen months old, they had started rebuilding and they moved us into new properties which was ……………Road., and that’s where I lived, basically what I call all my life until my dad died and I had to give it up because it was council property.

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David: I originally came up here because there was no work in Wales so I moved to London and then I met Susan and stayed here. I work in the Crown Court. I've been doing that for around 14 years. I've been an Usher to a judge. I make sure that the courtrooms are ready, all the papers are ready, so I've seen quite a bit since like I started there over the years. When I first started there I would say that most people were English but now, what’s coming through the courts is Eastern Europeans. You get all these big frauds, credit card frauds and that and you can trace them back to somewhere in Romania or Lithuania. So much fraud committed by them.

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Karen:Well where I work, I work in a very multiculture, industry anyway, so.

Eve: Where do you work?

Karen: I work in Tower Hamlets.

Eve: Oh right, yeah.. so in the ??

Karen: I work for local government.

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Eve: What do you do, what work do you do?

Jenny I work in New Look round here so I suppose I could relocate. I could sort of …

Eve: What is New Look?

Jenny A shop like a fashion shop.

Eve: Oh I see, a fashion shop.

Jenny:I could transfer. I think a bit like mum wants to slow down. I’ve only just started you know, I don’t want to be in the countryside. it might be boring.

Eve:So you might be the one to stay here.

Jenny:I don’t think I’d stay here. It’s too expensive.

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Jason: Currently, I’m a researcher in TV so I work on TV production doing the paperwork and clearance, the logistics side of television programming. Before that I was an adjudicator at the Financial Ombudsman Office which is like a regulatory service in Canary Wharf and before that I was a researcher and advisor in the Houses of Parliament.

Eve:So what made you leave those other jobs?

Jason: Well I left the first because I would say there’s too many politicians in politics. It can be quite a frustrating place to work if you’re trying to fix things and change things. It can sometimes be very frustrating to toe the party line.

Eve:Yes.

Jason:It can be quite frustrating if you disagree with the current status quo which it seems many people try to keep going.

Eve:Were you attached to any particular MP?

Jason: Yes, I worked for Romford’s MP and then North Swindon’s MP and for a brief time Thurrock’s MP so it was sort of MPs fairly local. I was attached to those, yes, so after I left there I saw another job advertised online with the Financial Ombudsman. They’d done a big recruitment drive and it sounded very interesting to go over and do and it was similar to the work I’d been doing already, with case work, so I went over there for about a year and a half but I grew quite bored with that because it was very process-driven. Instead of looking at individual cases and helping people and looking at things from a holistic point of view it was very much about running through the motions of a set process and that's what frustrated me with that and I just quitted my job without knowing about where to go next and I had always enjoyed television and I was talking to a friend about a job in TV and she said, ‘Have you actually thought about it as a job?’ and I said ‘Don’t be silly. People don’t actually work in TV’ and that implanted the idea then and I followed it through.

Eve:What do you actually do in TV?

Jason:: All of television’s freelance, on a freelance basis, so my role does change from job to job. Primarily, I change between writing the questions for quiz shows which is one aspect of it. Another part I work in is what I call production so that means compiling scripts for production so any show that’s got a script, so usually comedy shows, and production, that basically means, it’s the logistical side of it, you know there are many branches of TV, you know, the lighting department, the camera department, the directors, but there are the production teams that bring it all together with the logistics and the scheduling and the time-planning. They do all the paperwork and some of the more boring bits and bobs to bring the show together.

Eve:So you need to be very organised.

Jason:Well, I can’t say I am very organised, but I should be.

Eve: It's interesting that you're interested in comedy. You could almost bring that into the work you did in Parliament.

Jason: Yes, of course. This one is writing itself isn't it?

Eve:OK, it's very interesting. But you studied something else didn't you? Didn't you study law?

Jason: Yes, I did.

Eve: I see. You didn't want to go into law?

Jason: From the second year, I thought I couldn’t become a lawyer. It’s a very demanding job because one of my friends is doing it and he doesn’t finish until 10pm or 11pm every day.

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Amy:(was not interviewed but is in family tree. Amy has a degree in English literature from Exeter University and is studying to be a teacher). She now lives in Cornwall.