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I trained as a centre lathe turner, and made things in metalware a lot of the time. That was in Keighley in Yorkshire. I trained in Leeds, but I worked in Keighley. We were making parts for engines. Small ones as well as large ones. Small ones to be shipped out for the lads to use. There were quite a lot of women in the factory, yes, there were a few of us. I made quite a few friends there. That was considered a man鈥檚 job before the war. I met my husband there. He was a centre lathe turner. Luckily, he never got called up. He managed to stay doing war work.
Once the war finished, I went more or less back into the mill. I was a winder, and then I became a warper in the mill. I made the length of the cloth, you see, and somebody else did the weaving across it later.
My memories of the war were good and bad. I was at the age where I enjoyed myself. We went out dancing, two or three times a week. We didn鈥檛 suffer, in that sense, and, of course, being in Yorkshire, we weren鈥檛 troubled by any bombs and things dropping on us, not like they were down South.

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