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I was 15 when it broke out. I lived and worked in a private home in Edinburgh. I didn鈥檛 stay and went home to Shotts, Scotland. I was classed by Social Security as mobile so I was needed to go to England to factories at Swinnerton, near Stoke on Trent. They put us in digs. I went by train and a lady met us at Edinburgh. Two of my cousins were also in the factories but I didn鈥檛 know until I got down there. I stayed there for two years.

The factory made smoke bombs and ammunition. Both men and women worked day and night shifts from 6am to 4pm. We went in normal clothes then changed into white suits and bands round our hair to keep it in. We always got searched when we came out of work and we had to carry ID cards and gas masks.

I was also in Shotts when Clydebank was bombed.

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