I just wonder if the Typing Pool still exists in the same format as it did through most of the last century, and beyond.
The wide use of the type writer ushered it in, no doubt replacing the rows of clerks with pens, pots of ink, and candles.
And I suppose the arrival of the computer has pretty much killed it off.
Happily someone will know, and enlighten my ignorance, and add memories of working in the pool.
Location; a Typing pool
Picture; the Typing Pool, 1969, Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR35NR9v6lzJfkiSsHgHdQyL2CCuQUHuCuVr8xnd403q534MNgY5g1nAZfY,
And I suppose the arrival of the computer has pretty much killed it off.
Happily someone will know, and enlighten my ignorance, and add memories of working in the pool.
Location; a Typing pool
Picture; the Typing Pool, 1969, Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR35NR9v6lzJfkiSsHgHdQyL2CCuQUHuCuVr8xnd403q534MNgY5g1nAZfY,
Long since gone...
ReplyDeleteI remember occasionally having to negotiate to get work done by the typing pool when I was based in regional government offices. You could not see across the room for cigarette smoke, you had to beg to get anything typed, to explain why it was needed by a certain date, and why if it was needed then you hadn't brought it in 3 months before. Crawling away back along the corridor, coughing and spluttering for breath, you would wonder about your own right to be on the planet at all.
ReplyDeleteI worked in a typing pool when I left school in1980, it was during the latter years just as the decline was gathering pace. The job was awful, a couple of dozen of us sat in rows with the supervisor sitting at the front like a teacher in a classroom. We worked 8.39 to 5.30 and we're only allowed to leave our desks during breaks. The supervisor distributed and collected work. When we'd finished something we had to hold up our hand and she would come and collect it. The supervisors word was law she decided what work was done and in what order and she had a red pen for proof reading.
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