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Transcribed on the Comput@bus at Brockhampton Rural Learning Event

At the start of the war I was working at Richard Lloyd who made machine tools. We were badly bombed, thankfully at night when I was safe at home in the Anderson shelter. One night the Germans dropped incendiaries nearby and we had to put them out with the stirrup pumps. Another night when they bombed Coventry we were down the shelter for hours and hours with the planes circling round and round. We didn鈥檛 know what was happening as we couldn鈥檛 hear any bombs and it was not until the morning that we found out that it was Coventry.
Later on I was directed to work for the Ministry of aircraft production in Great Charles Street in Birmingham city centre. I worked in the typing pool for the inspectors who went out to the factories. They used to go out to check that all the regulations were being observed and that no one was pilfering.
One day we had a note round from the civil service asking for volunteers to work in the fields helping the farmers, picking apples etc I volunteered as I liked to try anything new. The next year I ended up lifting potatoes.
Later we had a letter come from the farmers to say that the civil service volunteers were the best workers they had ever had.

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