[Margaret Pilkington]

No Less, there was no luck involved in how I turned my life around. I studied, and I worked...and I studied some more.
When I left school in 1962 there were more young people than jobs. I got up every day and looked for work. I took myself to places...asked if they had any jobs going.
When I did get a job, I made damn sure that I worked so hard that they didn't want to let me leave.
I left and went working in the weaving mill....because it paid better money. I worked damned hard......6am in the morning til 2pm in the afternoon(I worked in Rawtenstall...lived in Clayton...walked from Clayton to Accrington to get the 5.30 bus to Rawtenstall) I learned to weave top class fabrics....then the company moved lock stock and barrel to South Africa........some workers went with the company...I had just got married and so I was made redundant.......how long was I out of work?
2 days. Why? because I went and found work for myself.
I worked for the Carborundum company...nasty dirty dusty work, heavy too.....decided that a career was better than a job....and you know the rest.
So don't tell me that luck had anything to do with how my life turned out....it didn't, it was application, education, persistance, hard graft........but luck NO...it had nothing at all to do with it.