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I was listening to the radio with my mother when I first heard that war had been declared. She immedietly left to get my brother from school. Soon after we were evacuated to Nottingham but returned at the end of September, just six weeks before the blitz.
I was terrified of the bombings and used to hide under the stairs with the rest of the family.
The morning after the blitz I had to walk to work (at the British Thompson Houston [BTH]) through a devistated Coventry.
As well as working at the factory I was also called up to do civil defence work in the fire service, where I was responsible for sending out the men to fight fires. A fire crew consisted of three women and seven men.
One day at the fire station I fell and tore a big split in my skirt and because I could'nt get another I had to fix it myself.
Another day there I met a sailor who promised to return and marry me...he never came back.

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