Robert
Thanks for posting this video clip about the young people who had worked on the QE2. It is easy to forget that in the 1960's the school leaving age in Scotland was fifteen and young people started work at this age. Apprentiships may have been started at sixteen (need to check this out).
I found this video particularly interesting as my brother started his working life as an apprentice electrician in John Brown's then he changed his apprentiship to the Drawing Office. I know that he had worked on QE2 drawings so I was particularly interested to see the young people in the Drawing Office who would have been there at the time when my brother worked in John Brown's.
It was also interesting to see the IBM Key Punch Machines as when I started work in 1966 I was offered a job as a key punch operator in John Brown's but I turned it down as I did not want to work in John Brown's beside my brother and Dad (you could be choosy in those days as there was lots of jobs to choose from).
