Woodcock, Betty

BETTY WOODCOCK lives in the UK, and began her working life, aged sixteen, in the analytical laboratories of ICI, before moving on to the accounts and costing department at David Browns, where she stayed until her marriage. Between raising three sons, she and her husband founded a small engineering firm producing teaching equipment, and doing subcontract work. She became an efficient machinist, together with dealing with the office side of the business. After her husband's early death, Betty ran the firm for two years before moving to the Civil Service to work for both the Inland Revenue and th...