- Contributed by听
- Back2Backs
- People in story:听
- Isabel Cash
- Location of story:听
- Birmingham
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3826550
- Contributed on:听
- 24 March 2005
This story was told to me by Isabel Cash at the Birmingham Back to Backs and has been added to the site with her permission.
"I worked for EMI records at Holloway Head, starting in 1940, until I was called up for telephone service in 1944. I didn't like working as a telegraphist, I didn't like the discipline - you couldn't leave your post!
We had a Morrison shelter. We couldn't have an Anderson shelter because we had no garden, as we lived in a court. Before we got the Morrison shelter we had to go up to George Road public shelter. We didn't get the Morrison shelter till towards the end of the war. It was very large and took up most of the living room.
We would come home from work and after a meal go to the public shelter - for weeks on end we wouldn't sleep in our own beds.
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