03-03-2022, 06:23 PM
When I started work in the Conservation workshop at The London Museum in Kensington Palace in 1963. The other lad Bob and I turned up in Jeans, polo shirts and desert boots. As Civil servant Boy learners on £25 a month no way we were buying fancy dress to work in. Any clothing we would buy was for our selves. Asked why we didn't come in flannels shirts and ties we said you supply them and we might. Esta code the Civil service bible had no answer. So for the rest of my working life I pleased myself. Only at the end did regulations for H&S come in and equipment was supplied.