Can you imagine this job advert today!

[Muck Spreader]

 

[B R C]

Wow, must never marry and must be fairly good looking......
What year?

 

[borderterribles]

Google says that Sir Philip Game was Chief Commissioner between 1935-45.

 

[delilah]

The advert seems quite risque. Wouldn't be allowed in the ooooh thread.

 

[Courier]

Google says that Sir Philip Game was Chief Commissioner between 1935-45.

And - Dorothy Peto :

Commander, A4 Branch (Women Police), Metropolitan Police
1932–1946

 

[vantage]

Well just goes to show despite things being maybe not perfect today, they are a World away from the position 80 years ago!

 

[kfpben]

Be a lot more potential candidates today too judging by the size of folk in town.

 

[Ashtree]

Well just goes to show despite things being maybe not perfect today, they are a World away from the position 80 years ago!

But doesn’t the current Met female commander named “Dick”!

 

[tepapa]

Be a lot more potential candidates today too judging by the size of folk in town.

But would they have a 'high standard of intelligence'

 

[76masseyman]

Brains plus good physique, as well as fairly good looking.

You may get two out of the three nowadays !

Anyone got a tin hat I can borrow ?

 

[texelburger]

I remember reading,a while ago,about nurse recruitment decades ago.Apparently they were weighed and measured before being recruited.So I would imagine you had to be certain height and not be overweight !
How times have changed.

 

[icanshootwell]

I suppose back then you only got pregnant if you were married.

 

[Paddington]

BA stewardesses used to have to conform to a height and weight range as well as the nice personality bit. Think the hefty ones went to Ryanair.

 

[Netherfield]

They just had to avoid the 'Bobby's Helmet'

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

I suppose back then you only got pregnant if you were married.

The 'right' calibre of woman maybe.

I think it was more to do with married women having to run the house for her husband. It was a generally accepted and unspoken middle class convention that when single working women got married they had to give up work.

My granny gave up working as a secretary in the 1930s when she married and she was really disgruntled when my mum refused to give up work when she married in the 1960s.

Into the 1970s single women were routinely refused mortgages in their own name unless they had a male guarantor, and in the 1980s a married woman's income had to be declared on her husband's tax return so he knew how much she earned.

Having to look pretty at work was the least of our inequalities.

 

[czechmate]

Wow, must never marry and must be fairly good looking......
What year?

I think it’s a translate from a current advert, here in rural france

 

[Bald Rick]

No wonder Dorothy Peto was a miss ....

Looked like Alan “shagger” Clark

 

[Bald Rick]

But doesn’t the current Met female commander named “Dick”!

Who doesn’t relate to her surname...

 

[fgc325j]

But doesn’t the current Met female commander named “Dick”!

Yeah! - and i'm sure she got some sort of Ag related degree.

 

[Cowmansam]

Obviously the wording and the appearance but is outdated but I was recently stopped by a male policeman who was no more than 5 foot and 8 stone id hate to be him having to Wade into a messy call out against quite possibly somone 3 times his weight he could be hard as nails but I still wouldn’t fancy his chances it does make a bit of sense in that line of work that you would want a decent build