The men started going through the Works fetching - they tried to get us girls out of the offices but the men and the gate men and that stood at the bottom and wouldn’t let them go up to the offices and wouldn't let us go down. So we had to wait till we could get out of the front entrance. I was courting by that time and my husband, bless him, and I could see him amongst the crowd. ‘Come on down’, he said. ‘Oh I can’t. I can’t get past old man So-and-So.’