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I was due to go for an audition with a white star liner company to be a pianist for their evening entertainment the very day the War broke out. Of course I couldn’t go because there were to be no more cruises — it was all to be military.

That was my chance — gone.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Joan Higgins and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Joan's stories:

• I was the first female postie in the war years in Bridgnorth
• We didn’t really have to take any evacuees…
• ’The Cheapest Holiday We Could Find’
• ’We forgot about you!’
• Evacuee Remembrances — Hello and Goodbye (And Hello again)
• A Victory Memory
• Lest We Forget

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