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This story has been submitted to the People's War website by Pam Riding of Kirklees Libraries on behalf of Mrs Hepworth and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

The day was declared my boy friend and I were visiting his sister to tell her we were getting married in the October. The next day everyone had a shock as the sirens went, my mother rushed my brother, sister and my niece into the cellar, not for long as the all clear went in about five minutes.
We really thought the Germans had landed. When we were issued with our gas masks, my niece, who was only two, was not amused, when we came to try them she wasn鈥檛 having any. Luckily we never needed them.
Ration books and identity cards were the next issue (I鈥檝e still got mine). Black out was a nuisance- no street lights, I walked straight into a wall and got a black eye. There hadn鈥檛 to be a chink of light coming from our windows or you got the A.R.P warden knocking on your door.
I worked weaving army blankets for a year or so, then as my husband was a farmer I joined the Land Girls at Rosewood.
As I lived near David Brown鈥檚 ( who were making munitions), I can remember an air raid and a bomb was dropped at Oldfield and later one at Wilshaw, no doubt they were targeting the factory. At one stage there were soldiers billeted next to the Ford Inn. My husband was in the Home Guards and did night watch once a week.

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