- Contributed by听
- gmractiondesk
- People in story:听
- Elizabeth Maddox
- Location of story:听
- Manchester
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3991331
- Contributed on:听
- 03 May 2005
I'm a seamstress and used to make dresses. But, when the war started we wanted to help the war effort. So we got a job making parachutes. We worked near Piccadilly and used to put our names and addresses on the parachutes.
A member of royalty came round once to see what we were doing - Mountbatten.
We had three floors - the parachute floor, packing etc.
We also made tank suits. I used to break my bones alot, so I used to go into work with my leg in plaster.
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