����ý

I started work at the age of 14 at ICT, Witton, Birmingham, which was known to the workers and locals as “loading fields” — making cases for bullets.

I was a messenger girl. There were no notes used — it was all done with memory from department to department.

In order to remember messages I always used rhyme. I lived in a yard blind-back house with Mom and Dad, 1 sister and 2 brothers younger than me.

We had a cellar that we used as an air raid shelter.

As I got older I was allowed to check cases for the bullets — looking for cracks, bent or broken ones.

© Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this.