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- Severn Valley Railway
- People in story:听
- Kathleen Vale
- Location of story:听
- Newnham Bridge, Worcestershire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4292453
- Contributed on:听
- 28 June 2005
I was hop picking at Newnham Bridge near Tenbury when war brole out. I was 13. My family went hop picking every year from Blackheath, in the Black Country. I remember a landmine dropping on Blackheath and the big public shelter in the town where the market is now. I started work at 14 years of age I was doing war work making nuts and bolts. My mother said that I would not be able to go hop picking again. So at hop picking time I gave up my job so that I could go picking and after the hop picking was over I went back to the factory and asked if I could have my job back. I did that all through the war.
(This story was collected at the Severn Valley Railway 1940s weekend and submitted to the People's War site by a volunteer from Wyre Forest Volunteer Bureau on behalf of Kathleen Vale and has been added to this site with his permission. Mrs Vale fully understands the site's terms and conditions.)
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