http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/391/0 en http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/normandy-beaches <p><span class='wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_right imgupl_styles_spacing_20_black_border\n\rBlack Border'><a href="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/arbroathrd.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/arbroathrd.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload imgupl_styles_spacing_20_black_border\n\rBlack Border imagecache imagecache-medium" style="" width="230" height="165" /></a> <span class='image_meta'></span></span>I was born in 1923 and brought up in Dallfield Walk and attended Rosebank Primary School, then on to Stobswell, leaving there at 14 years of age.</p> <p>I worked in a grocery shop for a spell as a message boy and assistant then left to join my brother in the CWS jute factory, weaving department in Arbroath Road as Assistant Yarn Dresser, eventually becoming qualified in charge at a machine.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/normandy-beaches"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Arbroath Road Dallfield Walk 1939-1945 Armed Forces Childhood Demob War Years Work / Working Life James Stobswell Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:08:13 +0000 lynne.davidson 687 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk