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I was born in 1943. I can remember going into the air raid shelter in the yard and into a machine - it was like a little cot with a lid.
My Auntie Jean worked in the munitions factory. She was very pregnant as were lots of women, so tney had to cut a round piece of the bench out for her to sit!
Women had to work, they had no choice and I think this is how state sponsored child care came about, so that women could work.
We were an immigrant family. I remember my Father's Mother had to report to the police every week as an 'alien' even though her sons were serving in the Army.

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