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This story is taken from an interview with Rose Stone, and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interviewer was David Reid, and the transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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I was the eldest, and I was starting work. I’ll be 80 on my next birthday in May. During the war we worked in the factory. It was Brookfield factory off the Crumlin rd.
It was all linen for different things for the war. And that was it. And then I took up nursing. And then I went off on that.

[Factory workers]
There were hundreds. The street used to be blocked with them all coming down from the factorys and the mills. Because in those days a weaver would only have had 2 looms in those days, and then it ended up they were minding 7 or 8 looms nowadays. But in those days they only had 2 looms.

[Shift-work?]
No, not really.
[worried about air-raids?]
Well, we did get 2 very bad air-raids. On a Tuesday, I think it was. On a Tuesday night. As I say, my father and I went down to get into the air-raid shelters, and they were full. We just stayed in the air raid shelter. And then the bombing started. And then parts of the road, the long road — the houses were beside another factory, that was on Linfield rd on Sandy Row, they were bombed as well. I remember that. On the whole, you were sort of waiting, it was nearly your turn. But as I say, my 2 younger sisters were evacuated up the country.

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