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I left school at 14 and went to work at Ceag in 1936. We were the first in the new building; I worked in the soldering shop, painting inside pit lamps, green on the outside.

I lived in Waltham Street; my father worked in the pits. I was 17 when the war started.

I joined the civil Nursing Reserve and trained in First Aid at New Street Clinic as a volunteer to help the war effort. Then at St Helen鈥檚 Hospital.

In 1942 Ceag sent me to Coventry, place called Baffington Fields. We lived in a Nissan hut and had to get a bus into Rugby. We鈥檇 gone to work at a factory making sparking plugs. We worked 7.30 am top 5.00 pm with our travel on top we also had to work nights and we were totally exhausted. After 12 months I came home ill. While at home I got married and 11 months later I had my first child. I was living with my parents.

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