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I grew up in Holbrook a small village in Derbyshire, with my mother and father, Edwin and Eliza Carrington and my sisters Elsie and Lilly. When the war started I was 20 years old and worked at Halls socks factory on Canada Street in Belper. As soon as the war started the factory closed and then you had to get in either the munitions, land army or you were sent away to work. I went to the LMS railway works at Derby and got a job on aircraft repairs, repairing hurricaines. We worked shifts, 7am in the morning till 7pm at night and then 7pm at night until 7am in the morning on a two week rota basis. We had one day off a week but the men worked 7 days a week.
Planes that had been shot at came into us and we repaired them with metal using a type of pop gun. We had an hour at dinner time and quater of an hour break mid morning and mid afternoon.
In 1942, I got married to my husband who was a railway worker, Harold Burgoyne at Holbrook Church. The staff at the railway works made a collection for our wedding, they put it in a chamebr pot on the rafters and I had to climb a ladder to get it, to the applause of all of the workers.

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