A Lad from Featherstone

 Cl Age 20  July 1973 LINPAC Factory Featherstone, West Yorkshire UK Bungalow – still Slam at home - cut a very lonely, Lad from Featherstone in the summer of 1973, he had just failed his teaching practice at Loughborough Colleges and was waiting to hear if was game over (thrown out) or given a second chance. He had a summer job at LINPAC factory, cycled there to stay fit, and saved petrol, from his mum and dad’s house, 32 Bedford Close Featherstone. Next to Purston Park so heaven from the age of 14.  He was back sharing a bedroom with brothers Mick & John.  When Lizie – His fiancé of one year- stayed, they used the six-berth touring caravan sat on the drive. He had reunited with Lizie two years earlier in the same house but that’s for later. The LINPACK was a steel frame, 25ft eaves, metal clad, factory/warehouse full of highly flammable cardboard. It was a cutting and printing factory which took raw (8' x 4') sheets of cardboard, through giant printing machine...