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I volunteered in 1942 to go into the womens Timber Corps. Did my training in Wetherby, Yorkshire for a month only, learning how to fell trees with a 5 pound axe and managed to axe my leg and ended up having 5 stitches. After training, was posted to Grasmere, to an all female operation, where we felled the trees, sawed them into pit props and timber. Later on, we were supplied with a circular saw to cut up the logs, which i was in charge of. In the cold weather, it was difficult to start the motor manually. I often had to put a drop of petrol on the spark plug! When we had exhausted the local woods around Grasmere, I was posted to a saw mill in Cardiff, where we were sawing the waste wood from the saw mill into fire wood and selling it in sacks. I came out in 1946 back to my secretarial work with the Halle Orchestra and Sir John Barbirolli. A job of a lifetime!

A full story can be found at the Imperial War Museum- Salford Quays

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