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This story has been submitted to the People’s War website by Peter Quinn of the Lancs Home Guard on behalf of Josie Brown and has been added to the site with her permission…

In 1943, I started work as a card writer in Vickers Shipyard, Barrow; the most boring job imaginable for a girl of seventeen. I was then offered a job at the Library, so I went and asked for my cards. I was promptly told that I couldn’t leave because I was doing a job of national importance. So I went to appeal and said I spent most of the time knitting socks — so they were forced to let me go. I stayed in the library job for 40 years.

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