Hbenterprise.co.uk
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HB Enterprises Index Page
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Once upon a time, I was a primary school teacher. When my own three sons were aged 3yrs, 2yrs, and just one month old I started the first multiracial nursery school in Gravesend, Kent, England. When my youngest son was 5yrs old I returned to full time teaching, specialising in children with reading difficulties and behavioural problems. At the same time, I began a University degree course, beginning with Social Science and Education, and finalising in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, for which I obtained first Class Honours, and left the teaching profession after 14 years.
I was offered the opportunity to study for my PhD in Protein Crystallography at Birkbeck College, London University. My husband of 15 years decided he would divorce me if I went ahead with this, even though my student grant amounted to more than my teacher's salary! I took up the offer and obtained my PhD 4yrs later, studying the tertiary structure of an enzyme from the fungus, Mucor pusillus, now used in the making of hard cheeses. Then the stringent government cut backs began to bite, and there were no jobs in the UK for protein crystallographers, so I took a job in the Biochemistry Department of King's College, London as a post doc., researching into chloroplasts from spinach, peas and barley, until a vacancy arose in the Physics Department at Imperial College, London. The contract was for 4yrs, but fell through after just 6 weeks, because the structure I was working on had been solved by an American group, and my grant was withdrawn.
At this time I had a boyfriend who used to take me to drag clubs in London, where I was quite appalled at the quality of clothing worn by the drag queens on stage. He suggested that as I was good at making clothes from my own patterns, I could advertise to make clothes for drag queens, however, the people who answered my first advert were transvestites, and among them were about 20 adult babies.
Languages
English
Address
- 158 Windmill Rd, Gillingham
- Kent ME7 5PE UNITED KINGDOM
Contact
- Dr Hazel B Jones Trading As: H B Enterprises
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- Alexa: Hbenterprise.co.uk
