{"id":7043,"date":"2025-02-25T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:06:28","slug":"jean-wheeler-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/jean-wheeler-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Wheeler: Everyday Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;pt-0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wi9ECCigqhM&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW239753029 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW239753029 BCX0\">By Jean Wheeler (taken from the film transcript with names added)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I first started coming, when I was 25 and I got my little son, Paul, who was then nearly four,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who then, eventually in the years became head choir boy here. And my daughter, Susan, was seven months old when I came here.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And it was lovely. Sunday was a lovely day.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But because I&#8217;d got four children (Paul, Susan, Kathryn &amp; Claire), and I worked, it was hard to come any other time.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So, my jumble sales was my night out. It was good. It was a family. We kept together and helped each other.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Going to church, getting your children ready and yourself \u2013 because I was the last \u2013 was hard, but we did it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Everybody rushing here, rushing there, getting underneath everybody&#8217;s feet. But we came, and I enjoyed it. But more often than not, my three older children came down with their father, Roy, and then I would push my little one, Claire, in the pram down and go into the back of the church, which is where the mothers sat, then, with the push chairs,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I left school at 14. Because I had rheumatic fever when I was 13, I was told I couldn&#8217;t do these things. It wasn&#8217;t a job I wanted, I wanted nursing, but I was told I wouldn&#8217;t be able to do it. But going to the shop, what I had to do in the shop was harder work than being a nurse \u2013 scrubbing the floors, cleaning the shop windows. You were just nobody. You just ran around and did things, you know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Until I married, I\u2019d been out scrubbing floors for seven and a half p an hour to help out with the family food and one thing and another. And I&#8217;m not bragging about it. I was pleased to do it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When, I suppose my young one was about six years old, I got to NatWest and I ended up running the post room. I did that for eight years and then I retired at 60.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I&#8217;ve always been busy and I&#8217;ve enjoyed it. And if I could have my life over again, it would be the same as what I&#8217;ve had now.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And I have a good life.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I&#8217;ve got a good family, I&#8217;ve got good friends, and I&#8217;ve got my faith, which should have been put first. Faith. 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