OMahony, John
2013 "OMahony, John", 2013, HistoryTalk John OMahony grew up on the White City estate in Shepherds Bush in the 60s and went to Christopher Wren School. His west London work career in the 70s and early 80s encompassed a paper round, a summer job at the Walls factory in Willesden, collec...
| Institution: | TUC - Trade Union Congress Library |
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| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/14A83620-E2F8-4916-812C-356551630A30 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/317E73CE-2792-459F-B3AD-5B32EA4F7ECC |
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"OMahony, John", 2013, HistoryTalk
John OMahony grew up on the White City estate in Shepherds Bush in the 60s and went to Christopher Wren School. His west London work career in the 70s and early 80s encompassed a paper round, a summer job at the Walls factory in Willesden, collecting glasses in the White City stadium Olympic bar at greyhound races, speedway meetings and pop concerts (including the Kinks and David Cassidy), a clerical job at the Post Office on Shaftesbury Avenue, a stint in the QPR shop at Loftus Road (in the Stan Bowles era), then Fidelity Radio and Brown Brothers car parts in Acton, the CBS record company warehouse in North Kensington, Whiteleys department store in Queensway, and Makro on Atlas Road.
Into the 80s, John worked for the Greater London Council at County Hall under Ken Livingstone in personnel admin. As Thatcher abolished the GLC, he continued working for the London Residuary Body at County Hall and in Covent Garden. He then went to Hammersmith and West London College and Ealing College of Higher Education (Thames Valley University) to do a degree in history, and worked at the Imperial War Museum and for the Civil Service Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in Holborn. In the later 90s John became a primary school teacher and has taught at various schools across west London. He also writes for the QPR fanzine A Kick Up the Rs and is a local historian of Shepherds Bush/North Kensington. Interview by Dave Welsh transcribed by Tom Vague.
In his clip John talks about the ending of GLC and impending redundancy inspiring him to go back into adult education and studied for a degree.
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