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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Dianne Burtrand of Chelmsford Library on behalf of Vera Crause and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

I worked in an office in a dairy in Baddow Road but when we were 18 all youngsters were called up and interviewed to see if they would go into the Forces or into the factories.
I had younger sisters at home who needed whatever I could earn as both my parents and elder sister had been killed earlier in the war. I went to work at Marconi’s, Chelmsford in the valve laboratory. My job was joining the metal to the glass. They both had to be heated to join together. Rather like making pastry was how it seemed to me at the time. People were very kind and patient showing us all the work. Because people were called up they came from all over Essex and Suffolk and lived in ‘digs’.

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