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["This story was submitted to the People's War site by Emma from Cedars Upper School on behalf of Muriel Bailie and has been added to the site with her permission. Muriel Bailie fully understands the site's terms and conditions".]
I was married by the beginning of the war. You brought up the children and I was working in London at the Shell Centre, near Waterloo. I started off as teleprinter at a Cable Department then to one of the other departments doing Clinical Work.
We earned hard for buying clothes, and we learnt to econimise. We had no uniform. I had a flat to start of with and moved into a house. Naturally, I lived with my parents before I married. Of course, things were rationed. The recipes were limited to what there was and the amounts were limited to what there was. I didn't go for powdered eggs. I'm a naturalist and preffered natural things.
My husband worked on the Railway, he was a guard. That was where I met him. We moved out towards Essex. My children would be very young, one was in a pram. They were both before school age. They were growing up in the Herald Wood area.
My childrens' education was different to mine. They were ordinary elementary schools then and you had to leave school at 14.
There were street parties but I didn't ever go to one.

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