University was coming to an end and the reality was kicking in, that I had better start finding a job or perhaps better still a career. In the dark days of the early 1980s, finding gainful employment wasn't necessarily straightforward and for many impossible. The Grocer's Daughter had reduced much of the old industrial landscape to rubble and to many, jobs were something that other folk had down in the South. What has that got to do with Bishop Auckland?? I knew 2 brothers at University. They hailed from Bish. Sunderland fans to the core. On the subject of finding a job down in London, the younger sibling was quite outspoken. "I would rather be on the bins back in Bish than go down there", he would pronounce. Tongue in cheek, of course. I have no
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