Alan Lever - About Me

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About Alan Lever

....What with thinning hair, expanding waistline, Gout, Arthritis, Prostate trouble, high blood pressure, a bunion on his right foot and a left knee just about dropping to bits.........How did he manage this?

Lever is an uncommon name this side of the Pennines, much more common in Lancashire which gives some credence to the family tradition that my Great Grandad and his older lads walked over the Pennines to get work in the local mines. My Grandad, Percy always had us believe he was related to Lord Leverhulme of Sunlight Soap fame until I asked him "How come tha worked darn't pit for 50 years then".

Growing up in the boom years of Barnsley, I had a happy childhood, it snowed every year and stopped for weeks on end, dint rain much in summer and when it did we were at Blackpool (Barnsley used to emigrate there every Barnsley Feast week, third week in August when I was a kid)

Blackpool clubtrip kidsbeach

Passed my eleven plus and went to a old and honourable school with no gym, no playing fields, no showers etc - my brother had all these at his Secondary Modern - so we had to leave our clothes in heaps in the toilets when doing games only to find we had been robbed when we returned BUT for the honour of the school kept our gobs shut. Left ASAP at fifteen and started an apprenticeship at the area workshops of the National Coal Board.

welder template 3dpipes

I followed my trade of Fabricator/Welder eventually specializing in pipework, particularly enjoying template development work. Now over fifty, too old for anybody round this neck of the woods to employ.

arc strike

I did voluntary work in my local towncentre at Barnsley Shopmobility for almost seven years. This came to an end in 2004 when I was falsely blamed for our main sponsor losing a scooter sale, (when I checked with the sponsor, they had made no such complaint). As this was not the first time that evidence had been "manufactured" about me, I duly lost "lost mi rag" and in full flow "CollierySpeak" gave them what they wanted, me to finish! Since that time I have asked a number of times what I had done wrong. The answer given was as I was a volunteer, they were under no obligation to give me details. After seven years working for nowt, what a brilliant piece of man management.

I recently started volunteer work at the Roundhouse Neighbourhood Learning Net, this involves taking out posters and leaflet drops etc to the various community outlets, such as schools, sports centres and local businesses. These tend to be short adult education courses but some quite long ones, my wife is taking a course in British Sign Language that is a full year. I am about half way through the European Computer Driving License (to add to the other qualifications nobody wants!)

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