- Contributed by听
- nottinghamcsv
- People in story:听
- Edna and Jim Watson
- Location of story:听
- Grantham and Nottingham
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A5541563
- Contributed on:听
- 05 September 2005
"This story was submitted to the People's War site by CSV/大象传媒 Radio Nottingham on behalf of Edna Watson with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions."
I was 18 and a half when War broke out. I was seeing a lad who was in the terratorials. i got called up to an amunition factory in Grantham, "Marco's". I got a day off and came to Nottingham where i met my husband Jim. We lived on Manor Street, Nottingham.
My husband Jim went to India, he was an ambulance driver. My husband saw his son born and then he was 3 when he saw him again.
I went to live in a prefab, my husband knew nothing about the prefab until he came home.
I made hairnets at home during the war after I had the children.
When he came out the Army he went to Jessops, he was a driver for 38 years, a link driver - driving between the lorries and the shop in King Street.
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