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I started work in March 1939 in the offices at Patons and Baldwins, Clark Bridge Mills, Halifax. In September 1939 my boss asked me to phone home to my mother to see if the war had been declared and i am sorry to say it had.

We did have a bomb dropped in Hanson Kane, Halifax. It didn’t do too much damage luckily.

We did do fire watching at night just in case incendiary bombs were dropped. That was taking turn every so often.

At the age of 17/18 I was asked to join the home guard and I did typing for Major C D Rothwell. It was only once a week. I was picked up by a car and taken to the Head Quarters. I was also brought home later in the evening. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard didn’t think it was safe to travel alone! I was the only women in Halifax, Yorkshire ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard and I enclose a copy of my service record certificate. We lived in a semi-detached house and every time the Air Raid Warning sounded we used to go next door as our neighbour had built a cellar underneath the Dining Room. The entrance was from the outside and so being deep down it was reckoned to be safe.

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