Greenvale worker racks up 42 years at potato giant

A Greenvale employee is closing in on 42 years at the company, despite taking the job initially as a 'stopgap'.

Moira Henderson, 60, will mark 42 years at Greenvale’s potato business in Duns in November, making her the firm's longest-serving employee. Added to that, three of her siblings also work at Greenvale.

Henderson, who lives in Berwick, saidthat she applied for a job at the plant in 1973, when it operated under the name ES Black: “It was just going to be a stopgap, but I liked it, and I stayed,' she said.

The business only had about 50 staff then, a quarter of today’s total. The other main change she has witnessed in her career has been the introduction of technology and computerisation to the process of selecting, washing and packing potatoes.

“Back then, we did almost everything by hand,” Henderson said. “The work’s still fairly hard, but not nearly as manual. Things have changed, but I’ve always enjoyed working here.”