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In 1941 I was thirteen and living in Worcester, where I was born. Around that time, for a couple of years my Mum and I organised the local small girls into a concert party. We called ourselves "The Victory Girls" and collected money for war charities.

Mum made all the costumes, she was a dressmaker, and played the piano for us. The concerts were held in our living room, one half being given over to the "stage" with drawing curtains! The other half filled with the loyal mums and grans and some dads, most being away at the war. We always played to "full houses" and collected quite a substantial amount of money for "Aid to China" and "Aid to Russia". But our favourite was "Red Cross Parcels for Prisoners of War". We regularly had write-ups in the local paper.

The scenery, I remember, was painted on large cardboard cartons, kindly donated by the local baby clinic. I remember dried milk was delivered in them - it was a long walk home with these flattened boxes bigger than us!

We had a lot of fun doing our bit for the war effort!

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