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I was up in Bolton during the war. I started working in an armoury mill when I was 14, then went to Montaque Burton, were I made uniforms for the Army and Navy. I made the uniform, the top, collars. All the way through my work there it was always busy. I was paid well, got six pence a dozen, which back then was a lot of money, but you didn鈥檛 really think about it much at the time.

I remember the air raid shelters, we found some good singers amongst all the people there! We had the departments around our factory all in the same shelter. There wasn鈥檛 much bombing but there was a fair bit in Manchester, that鈥檚 where all the engineering works were.

You don鈥檛 really think of it, but I remember one of my aunts was engaged to her boyfriend Jim, she had her fortune told a few days before they got engaged and the fortune teller told her that she wasn鈥檛 going to be with Jim. You don鈥檛 believe it at first, you think it鈥檚 all made up. But it was true, during the war Jim drowned.

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