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I had four brothers of working age all unemployed and receiving dole money. I left school at fourteen years old and missed it a lot. My friends belonged to a dance troupe and every day we danced during play time and I learned everything they knew about dancing. In consequence I ended up at seventeen years old reading an advert in a newspaper asking for dancers for pantomime and dared to go to an audition, which I passed for a six week run for Babes in the Wood. Then I was hooked, I was now seventeen, tall and slim and working now in an upholstery factory making cushion covers and periodically being dumped in the feather bin by apprentices!
I was destined to go back into pantomime to which my boss was sympathetic since he was a musician. I was paid six shillings (35p) a week in the factory and the theatre paid four pounds fifty which was a fortune. My mother was elated to get most of that money which I gave to her most weeks.
I loved my job dancing. My friends from school were also working on the stage and passed on any spare work, so once again I was back in Panto but this time I was touring Britain and never looked back until I was married to the son of the lady who employed us dancers.
Words: Ellen Mills
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