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During the war I worked in the civil service at the Royal Ordinance Factory, called Pearson Brothers, on Kings Meadow Road in the Meadows district of Nottingham.
I was in charge of accounts and I had to train girls do do the accounts, because so many of the men were at war. I had to work overtime to train them. It took some doing.
I had twenty girls working for me. I had to make provisions for them. It was a worrying time to get work done. We used punchcards in those days.
The factory was known locally as the 'Gun Factory'. It made guns and bullets. It was never bombed during the war.
I lived in Oxton village, ten miles away from work. Sometimes I stayed with my friend, Winnie, in Ruddington to save the journey.

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