- Contributed by听
- kirstywaknell
- People in story:听
- Mrs Sorsby
- Location of story:听
- Sheffield
- Article ID:听
- A2237636
- Contributed on:听
- 27 January 2004
I worked in a sewing factory making shirts but they turned us over to make battle dress. I got married in 1940 a fortnight after the Blitz in Sheffield. I had to cancel all the party arrangements. We managed to get a cake with cardboard icing and had a cuppa at my mother鈥檚 house but everyone wanted to get off due to the sirens.
Two years later I was pregnant and I couldn鈥檛 get a midwife to come out. If you were pregnant you got a green book and new babies got a bottle or orange and cod liver oil. We moved then to Parson Cross which was a bit safer than town. On the night of the Blitz we hid under a shelter at Heeley. When we got home all the windows had been broken.
We would queue for anything and if there ever any bananas then word got round the estate really quickly.
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