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This story was added to the People's War website by Age Concern Salford on behalf of the contributor with her permission. I was in the ARP putting incendery bombs in the street. Then I got called up at 18 and it was a Munitions, of the Lancaster bomber, AV Roe. I was on Capston laith in a machine shop doing screws for the bomber. I was 22 and half when the war finished. We did 12 hours on nights, stood up all night. I never went in the air raid shelter. You had to wait for the red light coming. There was the guard on the roof day and night. My fiance, came home on VE week, after being a prisoner of war in Germany. He got taken in Dunkirk, France. He was a prisoner over 5 years, came home and we got married. I was a VE bride! The cottage we lived in was taken down after the war. The foundation had gone because of the heavy guns, in the park. In 1940, a big piece of shrapnel came through the window into the bedroom wall. We had no doors or windows. No christmas dinner. It was on the floor and it was all covered in thick black soot. That's a Christamas I remember and I will remember 1940 and my husband got taken prisoner of war. I was 17. I was there until 1945.

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