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@selenaclarke 2 ай бұрын

I really appreciate seeing these lovely videos. Thanks from NZ

@SueBrown-c5d 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting documentary, lovely to see the old photos. I also had family in Leeds originally from Lithuania.

@EileenHall-j9f 2 ай бұрын

I started work in the Personnel Office at Burtons in 1962, I was introduced to Jewish life at work. Mr Reuben who was the last of the Burton line, I seem to remember was so lovely to me. I served him his tea and coffee everyday, he always sat me down for a chat. I loved him. Burtons paid for me to go on an Outward Bound course for one month. Paid for all my clothes, paid my wages, and gave me pocket money . A very paternalistic employer. Great canteen, doctors, dentists chiropodists all on site. Yearly visits to Blackpool. A disco available at lunchtime. A putting Green. Visiting celebrities, even there’d Atmy choir, spine tingling performance. Looking back, yes it was paternalistic, but as working environments went it was I guess quite a unique experience.

@junecoleman9030 2 ай бұрын

I remember going to see the Burton factory in Leeds …hundreds of machinists ..row upon row all heads down hard at work ..I worked in wage office in kilmarnock ..Burtons ..

@unusedsub3003 2 ай бұрын

That’s the best kind of employer. Work doesn’t have to be punitive. My dad was an Arab from Jordan and he had many Jewish friends at work.

@MrJohnL21 2 ай бұрын

I never for one moment realised that Burton's was a 'Jewish' company. That's because it may have been started by a person of Jewish ethnicity, but this exceptional person clearly respected and valued the British people and tried to become as 'British' as his new hosts even down to taking a very 'British' name. And the same with Marks & Spencer, etc. etc. How this contrasts completely with the utterly dismal track record of the disciples of a certain Dark Age bogus 'prophet' whose fraudulent 'creed' breeds only institutional moral decadence and criminal destruction. By the way, what's wrong with 'paternalism' if it reflects the best of 'fatherly' motives?

@unusedsub3003 2 ай бұрын

@@MrJohnL21 What a ray of sunshine you are. You’ve clearly led a sheltered life.

@yolandabrinkman2653 2 ай бұрын

@unusedsub3003 not clear to me. Please explain your rationale for such a narrow minded, off the cuff comment

@littlecatfeet9064 2 ай бұрын

Interesting what the lady says about the Jewish migrants to Leeds looking forward, not backward while others didn’t. Everyone who migrates misses their homeland but must focus their future on the country they migrate to. Well done the Jews of Leeds for contributing so much.

@Baruch-q4n 2 ай бұрын

This is so very wonderful.

@denisleclerc7804 2 ай бұрын

Most interesting

@debrapaulino918 2 ай бұрын

"Nothing of it left. Unrecognizable." Look down. Bricks. Brick street they walked on. I bet there's a few spirits who still are.

@stevemorley5748 2 ай бұрын

Jewish migrants made Leeds the city it is; Marks & Spencer,Burtons etc etc. Good hard working people.

@BluesJames 2 ай бұрын

Marks and Spencer doesn’t make a city

@MrSentia 2 ай бұрын

@@BluesJames what does instead, a whole lot of mosques?

@leawilliams8476 2 ай бұрын

Hardly. Narcissistic much?

@kevinwhelan9607 2 ай бұрын

Well said. Tesco too.

@mixn44 2 ай бұрын

Astonishing how those poor immigrants, managed to progress so rapidly. Controlling the money supply helps. Sadly Phillip Green exposed the legacy.

@JohnCox-ut3cv 2 ай бұрын

My Grandmother left Holmfirth for Glamorgan in the first half of the nineteenth century. I know nothing of her family. I think it quite possible they came from Eastern Europe.

@lynettecockburn332 2 ай бұрын

My dear neighbour, Mr Solomon came from Leeds and after his wife died he returned as an elderly man to live out his life. RIP Trevor and Muriel x

@heartofoak45 2 ай бұрын

I did hear an apocryphal story once of Jews arriving at Hull on the boats and as they wanted to go to New York they were told that is where they were and they disembarked. Probably has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

@yolandabrinkman2653 2 ай бұрын

I've read several accounts of similar experiences.