goods office, clerk; sales assistant; Portsmouth; parcels; family background; childhood; education; childhood; starting work, duties;cartage rounds; horses; staff, carters; tissue record books; goods collection and delivery; customers, traffic; horses; Second World War air raid; duties; shifts; prisoners of war; Navy traffic; wartime damage; goods agent and railway; air raids; female staff; nationalisation; British Road Services; cashier, Fratton; indoor sales assistant; Rail Express Parcels; redundancy; National Children's Homes; church; leisure; freight handling; fire watching; church; pension; Portsmouth Harbour Station, Isle of Wight; home working; church; Fratton Goods, change from horses to lorries; early married years; Second World War; d.o.b. 1924-09-20, railway work 1938-1979, Portsmouth; National Carriers Ltd (NCL). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.