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My dad died when I was 17 yrs so we moved from the farm and I was called up. I had the choice of WRENS, ATS, WAAFS and the Land Army. I chose to join the Land Army because my mum was all alone and it meant that I was near by and could take regular visits.
Alnmouth was full of soldiers as well as a regiment of Polish soldiers.
First of all I went to Corbridge I had to milk the cows there and feed the chickens. I was billeted in a cottage with an elderly couple who became good friends. The farm very remote and I moved to Morpeth where there was a mixed farm. Here I spread muck with a grape, singled turnips, fed sheep and drove a tractor. There were lots of horses, they did all the heavy work.
When the war finished I was on poultry farm in Belford. I went back home and became a matron in a girls school up the Tyne- Allerwash Hall.
I felt I had worked hard through the war.

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