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This story is written by Iftikhar Patel & Nizam Vaid from Witton Park High School about Jack Whitehead.

This story is about us interviewing a man called Jack Whitehead. He was from Whalley in Lancashire. He worked as a farm labourer and a Home Guard. Jack worked three nights a week, in Whalley.

He was 18 when the war started and he was 14 when he started work and left home. He got married when he was 53. His parents lived in Nelson (Lancashire).At 5.30 in the morning he had to start work and milked 50 + cattle in the morning by hand not with the machines nowadays. Because they worked on the farm they ate plenty of eggs and they killed a pig and used to eat it. They grew lots of potatoes.

After the war he worked for 15 years and then the man retired. Then another man bought the farm and said you can manage the farm.

In that time you could buy a top class ordinary suit from burtons for 拢2.50 and from the local pub you could buy a glass of beer, a box of matches and a box of cigarettes for 6p. And from the chip sop you could buy fish and chips for 5p.
We enjoyed interviewing this man and he enjoyed us talking to him we had a great time.

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