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My mother worked in the munitions factory at Aycliffe in Co Durham.
She only worked there between 1943 and 1944, this I asume was because she was not Eighteen until 1943.
I have a photograph of a group of the munition workers, my Mother is on this photograph, I think this photo apeared in the Northern Echo a number of years ago.
I do not know very much about the work my Mother did only that it was very
dangerous.
She told me of some of her fellow workers losing limbs and even life during the time she worked there.
My mother's job was to fill bombs with explosive powder, she said she turned yellow .
I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who worked at Aycliffe during the years mentioned.
I always put a small poppy wreath on my Mother's grave , although she was not a casualty of WW2 I feel that my Mother's war effort and the effort of other munition workers should not be forgotton.
She was indeed an Ayclife Angels.

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