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Was just going to put something like that. In the days of apprentice's and later YTS no one got through the first week without meeting a bucket of grease, some iron fillings and the air line. Now its forced karaoke, worlds gone soft.
Our kid was at Reckitts in its heyday. Said they used to tie apprentices to trolleys and wheel em down the ramps to the factory girls. Brutal. Any exReckitts on here?
Actually JCB digger grease or used oil when I was an apprentice on building sites. Although in a lighter vein having your lunch box (not that lunch box) nailed to the lobby table, and just for good measures I was once working under some floor boards when some kind soul nailed the floor boards back down with me still underneath, even worse it was a Friday afternoon and everyone was leaving work early for home, bar stewards.
They did indeed Stanley, saw one of the poor souls down Gillett St on Hessle Rd who was an unhappy victim, the women were built like Mick McManus and were indeed in the mould of 'she who must be obeyed'.
Chazz I was at their Dansom Lane HQ in 62-63 in their management training program when I got out of Uni. Quit to emigrate to Canada for more money......600 quid a year wasn't enough to finance my life style !!!
I was an apprentice at Reckitts, and that initiation appeared to be more of an urban myth of what went on, but the rumour was certainly bandied around when i served my time, just don't know anyone who it actually happened to (I would often tie myself to trollies just outside the production areas, but never once got accosted ). It may also be that things were tightening up on things like that going on by then so could have been more of a historical thing. A lot of the alleged initiations just played on the fears of the apprentice. My first year out of Reckitts training school and on side i found myself at Reckitts Blue down Morley Street. The day we walked in the alleged initiation there was along the lines of Rock Bob (a guy with an alternative lifestyle choice!!) would have his own special initiation. That said there was always the taking the piss out of apprentices on what they could be made to do (Just go to stores and ask for a Long Stand, a Sky hook, a tin of tartan paint etc). When at Kimberley Clark one of the apprentices who lived in Barton, was bundled into the back of a Landrover, then for some strange reason !! lost his trousers and was then thrown out in Hull town centre to make his own way home. Only downside was his Mum worked in Hull or it would have been far funnier.
"Swarfega" that's a blast from the past. My dad swore by it. God knows what it did or what it was. Vague memories of it being green, sticky and oily!
I was born and bred down tadman street and believe me they wer all built like lil on seriods, very ****ing scary !!!!!
Good for getting grease off your hands after fixing your car, also came in handy if you'd run out of KY jelly
One of my sister's best mates in the 60's was a Reckitts factory girl. She was one of a group of other Reckitts lasses that had a Saturday night watering hole at the Blue Heaven? pub in Southcoates Lane before going on to a dance at East Park Baths. They were a really wild bunch but lots of fun. Occasionally when I returned to Hull for a weekend I joined up with them. Whenever I hear this it reminds me of the Reckitts girls.
