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The Mecco factory in Worcester produced ammunition during the war, and in August 1940 the Germans dropped a string of bombs in St Johns, close to Mecco. One day, without warning a stray bomber dropped a bomb which damaged my sister鈥檚 house, so she had to come back to the family farm to live. She was 7 months pregnant at the time.

Perdiswell Park in Worcester was a training camp for Spitfire pilots, we used to watch the planes circling and looping from the farm as the pilots did their training.

We had a family of evacuees at the farm, a mother and two children, but they returned to Birmingham after just a week. We had no running water nor inside toilet on the farm, and I think they were not vbery happy about that!

I worked as a typist then as a nurse at Barnsley Hall Hospital in Bromsgrove, where I worked on the TB Ward and in the Burns Unit. I remember nursing a soldier who was badly burnt in a tank at the Battle of Cannes. Rather than bandaging the burns we put covered the burns and blew air over them.

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