I was almost 17 when I joined Ealing Broadway branch straight from school. After 5 years in branch banking I went "on the road". My job was to train junior staff on site in the use of the encoder - a new method (at the time) for dealing with the remittances.

After a secondment to Teddington Training Centre in 1968, I joined the staff section of the newly formed London South Western Local Head Office. LHO was based in Chelsea, just off the Kings Road. I was there for all of the seventies, and remember decimalisation and the re-grading of staff. This was especially important to me, as it meant equal pay for women!!

I was a staff clerk involved in the recruitment and employment of school leavers for our 90 branches.

By the early 80's and having been married for over 10 years, it was time to start a family, secure in the knowledge that a pension was waiting for me, when I got to 50. Sure enough, at 50 and by now living in Sussex, my pension arrived, along with an invitation to join Brighton Pensioners Club. So I was in the right place (living only 100 metres from Neal McNamara, our previous Club Chairman) when Mid Sussex Pensioner Club made its bid for freedom in the late nineties.

I have been involved with the club ever since; initially, as membership secretary, and currently as “meeter and greeter” for social events and coffee mornings.