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The following is an account of vera cook:
wrote by Nathan carpenter

She was in the war at the age of 32, she used to do peoples insurance book, she used to work in a factory where they used to put lining in the helmets.She lived in the midlands so she didn't see much of the bombs being dropped.Her husband was away for sixyears.she said "it was very hard to feed a family,she ahd to spread the food out all over the week.She hardly ever saw her husband she wasn't aloud to contact him.When people had come out of the army it was hard for them to get a job,she could hear the bombs dropping she was terrified.shes got a brother who was in the ta's so he got called up immediately for the war.she said they weren't aloud to show any light because of the planes dropping bombs,her husband got fined 拢2 for showing light.the bombs would be strapped toghether so there would be about 8 expolosions.she said she always heard a drumming sound and thats when they knew the Germans would be coming.Then they would hear the air raid siren.They had a street party when the war had finished and they had a band playing at Longton town hall.There were ammunition factories at swinton and radway green.the people who worked in the factories had discoloured skin because of something the bombs were made out of.There were air raid shelters in every street and some people would have one in there back garden these were called anderson shelters.Babies were born at home because the beds at the hospitals would be for the injured soldiers.Veras sister was a nurse at the hospital at night.Any people to old to serve in the military would watch out over night for any fires or German planes her husband was in the metropolitan police force escorting German prisoners.

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