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Gwenfron was 18 when she was called for an interview in the Port Talbot Labour Exchange where she was asked how she would support the war effort.

Many workers eventually settled in nearby Brixton, the site of the nearest labour exchange, beginning the area's association with Caribbean culture.

Tucked away behind York Minster – the grand cathedral adorned with medieval stained-glass windows that dominates the North Yorkshire city’s skyline – is a cobbled street that has become an informal labour exchange.

It’s like a British Labour Exchange in a period of 50 percent unemployment — endless lines of the willing and frustrated, if not bitter and burned out.

Dad tells Grandma it sThursday and he has to go to the Labour Exchange for the dole and then down to the undertaker to bring the mourning carriage and the coffin.