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The following are memories recalled by Sheila Jackman MBE, as recorded by Hanover Housing Association in their book 'Tale of the Century' published in 1999.
 The picture was taken in the 1950's when I was Assistant Housing Manager for Crawley Development Corporation in Sussex, collecting rents on the town's Three Bridges estate.
Door-to-door rent collection was the norm then and notes could often be found pinned to front doors saying 'rent under door mat' or 'back door open, rent on table, help yourself'.
I obtained a professional housing qualification through the Society of Housing Managers, which undertook to place its students in different offices in order to gain wide experience. I worked for the Royal Borough of Kensington and the Bethnal Green & East London Housing Association.
Formal study took place alongside the practical work and covered Building Construction, Drainage and Sanitation, Law of Housing, Law of Landlord and Tenant, Estate Records Accounts and Social Affairs. I successfully gained my Housing Managers Certificate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
After taking early retirement from my last post of Principal Housing Officer for Epping Forest District Council, in 1990 I joined Hanover. Housing Management has played a major part in my life and I count myself very fortunate to have found a career which was so satisfying
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