Oster-Ritter & Son in Hadleigh, Benfleet

This is where I started my first job back in 1962 and was taken on as the general odd-job for a 44 hour week at one shilling an hour. Since I had no qualifications from school, the then Youth Employment Agency (then next door) could only offer me this job as a compositor. I was to spend the whole of my working life in print as I found it totally absorbing, fascinating. I retired in 2012. My only regret was to see the disappearance of hot metal and the bizarre entrance of Lick and Stick period which lasted for around ten years and was replaced with computers. Ian Davidson.