John,
In 1972, I had just taken up my first Management apointment as Deputy Manager of W.H. Smith in Basildon
Two days after arriving the Manager went on holiday, and just as he left he said get the Cleaning Contractor to clean the record departments carpet.
I thought it was just a routine thing.
I askedthem to do it, they looked at me a bit puzzled Carpet Cleaning whats that?
I better ask the boss.
To cut a long story short, they eventually came along and used a rotary scrubber and turned the entire area into mud.
Eventually we got a firm from London to do it.
John where were you in my hour of need.
Why did you not canvas us and say do you want your carpet cleaning mate
Still cant remember Vange went through Pitsea everday as I lived in Hadleigh at the time.