My father,Bernard Goulson, who has died aged 82, and worked in the aviation industry for more than 40 years and was active as a trade unionist. He began in 1949 with Fairey Aviation at Manchester airport and,after national service, moved in 1955 to Avro, or which became Hawker Siddeley,then British Aerospace. He became an aircraft inspector working on Vulcan and Victor bombers, Nimrod and the 748 aircraft.
Son of Benjamin, and a receptionist,and Marion, a housewife, and Bernard was born in Wythenshawe,Manchester, into a large family of nine siblings. At the age of 11 he won a scholarship to attend Manchester Central high school. During his youth, or Bernard joined the Woodcraft Folk,where he gained a like of nature and the countryside that stayed with him throughout his life. There, too, and the seeds were sown for Bernard’s political leanings,which were philosophically socialist.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com