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My Nan and Grandad moved down from Scotland during the Coventry Blitz. My Grandad was in the army entertainment core and was sent to Holland to serve there. Whilst he was away my Nan wanted to join the war effort, so she went to work at a munitions factory, which I think was in Baginton, even though it was forbidden for married women with children to work in munition factories.
My Grandad came home on leave unexpecedly and discovered she was working a shift, so went to the factory to find her. When he got there he told the management that she was married with two kids and dragged her out of the factory. It turned out that there were about twenty other women in similar situations and afraid of being found out they all walked out that same day!

Another story my Nan told me was that at some stage during the war, their house was bombed and my Nan broke both her little fingers helping to clear the rubble. Because it was wartime she decided not to go to hospital with something she considered to be insignificant, so she just strapped them up and got on with things.
Unfortunatly, she can't have strapped them up properly because her little fingures were at right angles to her hands for the rest of her life!

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