I worked in a DP agency in St Martin's Lane, on the edge of Soho, for a while after Uni. We ran lots of work for marketing companies. Many of them had their data punched in by the punch "girls", actually about 30 middle-aged Chinese women, who all chain-smoked and shouted at one another in Cantonese. Occasionally, we had to go and collect trays of card decks to load up. The room was hellishly noisy and hot, and the smoke was horrible because there wasn't any aircon, just fans.
Carole
