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I was working at Rolls-Royce during the war. I was fifteen when war broke out. We started to play tennis. We played with the draftsmen. I married one of them, Allan. 1947 in the snow. That was the worst winter. There was no coal and more rations than during the war itself.

I did some fire watching. If they dropped fire bombs we had to put them out with a little pump. Luckily we never had any of those bombs drop.

I remember the smoke screens they put up around Derby. All the oil drums they set fire too. I had to cycle past these drums, no wonder I have asthma now.

My wonderful mother used to make sponge cakes with dried eggs. My brother Richard, was in the Air Force. My other brother, Roger, worked at Rolls-Royce, then got called up after the war.

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