The Lady

I got a job as a nanny in Canada from The Lady.

I got a job from The Lady, when I was about 16, as an Assistant at a non-residential Inn at Friday Street, near Abinger Hammer, Dorking Way. Made friends with a girl who lived near Mumbles Beach, Swansea, and we were friends for years!

Yes many years ago aged 18 I was desperate to leave home, abusive stepmother and bought the Lady to look for an au pair job. On the back page an advertisement saying do like children if so why don’t you train to be a children’s nurse. I applied, accepted and started training 1 month later! Thank you Lady one of the best decisions I ever made!

Lady.co.uk... jobs property etc... for anyone interested...

I've heard from a member who would like the early copies of The Lady I offered for free, so they are no longer available.

I've heard from a member who would like the early copies of The Lady I offered for free, so they're no longer available.

I wrote some short stories for The Lady, many years ago. Out of all the women's magazines, I think that it was my favourite because they gave you space and didn't expect stories always to be short and snappy.

I think Boris Johnson's sister got rid of the stories, but I had ditched the women's mags market by then.

I’m sure it’s still online. I get an email from The Lady monthly advertising hired help etc.

I recommended the magazine to a friend of mine who was looking for a job. She landed a job as house mother in a posh naval school for boys in Oxfordshire. It worked out for her as she ended up meeting her future husband down there!

Many years ago I worked at WHSmith and we had a number of ladies who ordered this weekly. It always fascinated me just a little bit. I also remember Lady Grantham advertising in The Lady for a new ladies maid! When my daughter was re-watching Downton Abbey recently (in preparation for the third film), I did find myself wondering if The Lady was still even going. It very much does feel like it belonged to a very different time.

Oh dear, My post just says 'Image coming soon'. Let's hope it does, you you can see all 11 copies of The Lady. The last sentence was meant to say 'First time I have posted a photo on here'. Which doesn't seem to have worked!

I've got 11 old copies of The Lady, dating mainly from the 50s, but a couple in the early 60s. Lovely to read - such nostalgia, although I never took the magazine when I was young. I was about to tie them up to give them to a charity shop, but if anyone on Gransnet would like them, send me a private message with an address I can send them to. If you want to repay postage, just donate it to your favourite charity. Here's a photo - hope it transfers. First

I thought it had gone long since. Not seen it for years. Many magazines are finding it hard to carry on, but if you do not advertise your existence, then only themselves to blame

Yes! My friend and I got our au pair jobs in Italy through The Lady. This was decades ago and the only way of getting such jobs. Believe it or not it was considered very brave- if not a bit crazy to do such a thing in "those days". It was a huge adventure for us before university. Today I speak Italian and have never forgotten that first of many adventures abroad. The Lady was a means to an end; I rarely bought it just to read. I always felt nostalgic to see it though.

My only experience of the Lady was being given a copy by a great-aunt when I was fourteen.

I read it in surprise, as it seemed to me to be talking about a world that did not exist in my part of the west of Scotland.

It struck me then, in 1963, as so out of date, that I am amazed to hear it has only just gone into liquidation!

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For decades our family villa accommodations were always found via 'The Lady' or the 'Sunday Times'.

Always private ads and always helpful friendly owners - and all holidays mega successful. Cote d'Azur, Catalonia, Crete and even Barbados eventually.

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I used to read it when I was babysitting as a teenager and dreamed of getting a live-in job with animals. My father wouldn’t let me, so it remained a dream. My friend did leave home at 16 to take a live-in job as a mother’s help, and now 70, apart from the years married and raising her own children, she has always worked as a live-in carer.

I’ve never seen The Lady in any of the bookstores I visit ie Grocery Stores 😂

Although I don’t think the fella that Deeda refers to was wanting a “lady”.

Deedas post made me chuckle! I hope he didn’t have a daughter like on another post on here!

I’m loving these stories. 😊 I can’t say I’ve ever read an issue, but remember our headmistress recommending it to any of her girls wanting to spend some time abroad as an au pair.

My Mum in the mid 70s answered an ad in The Lady for a holiday cottage to let in a seaside village called Beer in Seaton, Devon.
There were seven of us including my brother, sister in law and their three children.
We were the owners first let, it was gorgeous and they were lovely genuinely kind people. One of the most memorable holidays for me as a teenager.
My mum had a knack for good holiday choices.
Would most likely cost an arm and a leg to rent the same these days🥹

I had some short stories published in The Lady, years ago. I believe that they stopped including stories when Boris Johnson's sister was editor, but I don't know if that's true. To be honest, I can't say that it was a magazine that I ever bought.

I used The Lady to find a General Assistant position in a lovely hotel just outside Reading, Berkshire.
This was in 1977 and I was paid £45 per week with food and I lived in a bedsit above a launderette across the road.
There were six bedsits sharing one bathroom and the boys house (chefs etc) was down the road - great parties I remember…!!!
Lovely magazine of a bygone era …. 😊