b'Recollection by Sally Hoskinsthe Surrey Advertiser next door. Then it was back to theIn the early 1980s, the firm purchased its first computer office to make coffee for everyone, which was a task inand I was elected to be the first person in the office In 1971, straight from school, I joined the firm ofitself boiling up a saucepan full of milk and water on ato use it. With the arrival of the internet and more Clarke Gammon & Emerys as the Office Juniorstove and precariously pouring it into cups. Balancingadvanced technology, everyone in the office had a having passed my Pitmans shorthand and typinga full tray of coffee cups was no mean feat down twocomputer very quickly. exams. The newly refurbished office was situatedflights of stairs, starting from the top floor, stopping off on the first floor at 45 High Street.In 1994, Tony Jamieson joined the firm to head up at the first floor, and by the time I reached the ground the residential department and I became his PA. My role was to assist the receptionist with generalfloor senior partners office, I got a look of disapproval Tony brought fresh new ideas to the firm and was admin, typing, and answering the telephone. I hadas by then most of the coffee was in the saucer and had instrumental in opening offices in Godalming, Shere, to learn many new skills, from operating a telephonegone cold! Haslemere and Liphook, and the Guildford Offices move switchboard to using a whole range of office equipmentI very much enjoyed working for the family run firmto its present location in 1999. in which to produce a set of property sales particulars,which prided itself in offering both a friendly and including a Roneo ink machine and a very antiquatedI continue to enjoy the diverse areas of professional professional service, and working for an estate agents photo copier. There was also a hand-made devicevaluation work Tony specialises in and I particularly was an interesting job to be in, as you never quite knew invented by Brian Clarke for sticking double sided tapeenjoy assisting Tony with the property auctions which who you were going to meet that day, it could be a local to the back of a roll of black and white photographs;can be very exciting. Having remained at Clarke dignitary or even a celebrity; or who the next phone another machine that folded the sales particulars intoGammon Wellers over the years, I have made many call would be coming from, and I always got a sense of three so that they would fit into envelopes, a machinefriends along the way and am still doing so, and looking satisfaction with helping people. for printing envelopes, and a franking machine. All ofback, it is technology that has been the greatest change these became part of everyday life.Over the next 20 years or so I worked as secretarialin the way my job has evolved and the way the office support to the partners, managers and negotiators inoperates today, but each time the phone rings it is In those early days, come rain or shine, my day wouldresidential sales. During this period, technology wasusually another valuation enquiry, so in that respect begin with a walk around the town hand delivering theimproving, and the manual typewriters were replacedthings havent really changed since 1971. and I am still offices local mail. I also delivered 35mm films to two ladywith the invention of the golf ball typewriter, whichmaking the boss coffee!photographers, Cull & Dell, situated in Martyr Road forprinted the letters on the page without the typewriter processing the black and white photographs for our saleskeys getting jammed together if you typed too fast! details, and delivered the weeks advertisement copy to'