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72 years at the same firm

A Darlington solicitor has finally retired after 72 years with the same firm. Fred Burton was 15 when he was taken on as an office junior at solicitors Latimer Hinks in 1936, reports the Daily Mirror.

Now, aged 88, and a senior legal executive, he has finally called it a day.

Fred said: “I guess the secret was that I really enjoyed it, I loved going into work every day and really got on with the people in the office.”

Colleagues held a champagne reception to toast Fred’s long service, broken only by a stint in Egypt in the Second World War.

Fred believes he may have set a record for a British worker, although he was beaten to a world record by a Goldman Sachs employee in the US who put in 74 years.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .