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This story has been submitted by Alison Tebbutt, Derby CVS Action Desk on behalf of Ellen Locas. The author has given her permission, and understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was in service when war broke out. I was a second housemaid in a large Hall in Alfreton. The basement was used as an air-raid shelter and in the event of a raid gentry and staff used it. Class barriers dissapeared when danger threatened. In 1940 half the Hall was taken over by the Army and after Dunkirk soldiers including Belgians and Frenchman were sent there. After I married I went home to my parents, where I helped with evacuees, sent from Southend. These children, coming from the coast, had never seen much of the country, so ran wild in the fields. They also attended school in the local village. It was all so very different from what they had been used to. I then went as House Parlourmaid to Lady Inglefield in Windley. Wounded soldiers convalested there, mostly officers. In 1942 I had my first child, a daughter, so I spent the rest of the war looking after the baby, helping with farm work and waiting for my husband to return from the armed forces.

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