- Contributed by听
- csvdevon
- People in story:听
- Leonard Spittel
- Location of story:听
- Dunstable, Bedfordshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A6127823
- Contributed on:听
- 13 October 2005
This story has been written onto the 大象传媒 People's War site by CSV Storygatherer Alison Lear on behalf of Leonard Spittel. The story has been added to the site with his permission. And Leonard Spittel fully understands the terms and conditions of the site.
I was a stoker in the Tottenham and District Gas Compny starting in 1939 when I was 14 (after leaving school).
Having worked in the stores for a while I then went to be a fitter's mate for a foreman. This foreman deferred me from the forces without my knowledge because I had just lost my father and the foreman thought my mother needed me. I never went into the forces and I stayed at the Gas company until 1948.
From my wages (I can remember working 76 hours a week for 拢7!!) they took income tax and from the remainder they took post war credit. This credit started in 1942 or 1943 and I stopped paying it after the war.
I finally received my credit back in 1973. It came to a grand total of 拢90 which is not much when you think I was paying it for three years during the war!
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