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I worked down at the Cambridge railway cleaning the engines. We could either choose to go away or work on the railway and I choose the railway. It was hard work as you had to go into the boiler and clean them, as well as other jobs. We worked from 9 to 6 and we had to get a bus from Sawston to Cambridge 5 days a week. We had lunch at the railway. We all went together we had to, it wasn鈥檛 a nice job but we just got on and did it. In all I worked there for 12 months. Before and after that job I worked at the leather factory in Sawston and after the war I went back to my job at the leather factory. I met my husband at the railway, he was a driver there.

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