RESP: While I was there I got a trip with An Bord Easc Mara to the World's Fishing Expedition in London and I’d a sister in Coventry, she was training as a nurse and I’d a brother on the buildings in London and when I arrived over there and seen him driving his brand new car, Anglia, and money to, that I thought, to throw around the place. I says "I'm giving" that was in the summer time and I says "one more herring season and if it doesn’t work out I’ll be ringing you up" and that’s exactly what happened. Bad herring season again, bad prices and I says, "To hell with this", even though I loved what I was doing, loved being at sea but you can't go on without money.  INT: So you moved on  RESP: So I moved onto London then  INT: And would you get a job through him?  RESP: Got a job through him but not what he was it, because it was winter time work was very scarce at least he had a flat there and I moved in with him and I’d seven pound going with me. And I came home again that year I put a few pound together between that and June and I came home and did the salmon fishing in July. And there was a bank strike that year and with a bit of fiddlin’ and diddlin’ and what have you, I ended up with forty two pound at the end of that season so I said "To hell with this" and I sold the nets and the whole lot and that was it. Never went at it ever since so I went back to London and put the head down and instead of digging holes I got myself a hammer and a saw and started shuttering like the rest of them and me wages jumped from £3 a day to £7 a day.  INT: And how did you get on, how would you get work when you were over there?  RESP: Oh networking, you didn’t work in the, you made phone calls, you met people in the pubs, "Whats the work like there?", and when you, after a while you made your name and your name was good, if there was work going they’d be looking for you and you wouldn’t be looking for it. We worked in price work gangs  INT: And were they Irish contractors?  RESP: Oh all Irish, that the misfortune I made is to stick with Irish subcontractors. I had no pension rights, no stamp, no nothing. It’s a big lump of. I did only four years, I turned in when I met me wife and she got pregnant and our son was born and we decided when he was a year old [we're] going home, not bringing him up in this country [Laughs]

RESP: While I was there I got a trip with An Bord Easc Mara to the World's Fishing Expedition in London and I’d a sister in Coventry, she was training as a nurse and I’d a brother on the buildings in London and when I arrived over there and seen him driving his brand new car, Anglia, and money to, that I thought, to throw around the place. I says "I'm giving" that was in the summer time and I says "one more herring season and if it doesn’t work out I’ll be ringing you up" and that’s exactly what happened. Bad herring season again, bad prices and I says, "To hell with this", even though I loved what I was doing, loved being at sea but you can't go on without money.

INT:	So you moved on

RESP:	So I moved onto London then

INT:	And would you get a job through him?

RESP:	Got a job through him but not what he was it, because it was winter time work was very scarce at least he had a flat there and I moved in with him and I’d seven pound going with me. And I came home again that year I put a few pound together between that and June and I came home and did the salmon fishing in July. And there was a bank strike that year and with a bit of fiddlin’ and diddlin’ and what have you, I ended up with forty two pound at the end of that season so I said "To hell with this" and I sold the nets and the whole lot and that was it. Never went at it ever since so I went back to London and put the head down and instead of digging holes I got myself a hammer and a saw and started shuttering like the rest of them and me wages jumped from £3 a day to £7 a day.

INT:	And how did you get on, how would you get work when you were over there?

RESP:	Oh networking, you didn’t work in the, you made phone calls, you met people in the pubs, "Whats the work like there?", and when you, after a while you made your name and your name was good, if there was work going they’d be looking for you and you wouldn’t be looking for it. We worked in price work gangs

INT:	And were they Irish contractors?

RESP:	Oh all Irish, that the misfortune I made is to stick with Irish subcontractors. I had no pension rights, no stamp, no nothing. It’s a big lump of. I did only four years, I turned in when I met me wife and she got pregnant and our son was born and we decided when he was a year old [we're] going home, not bringing him up in this country [Laughs]

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