My experience of WW2

I was 14 years old when WW2 started. I remember that the first bomb that was dropped landed on Bolton and Pauls Factory in Norwich. I was at school when the bomb dropped and we all wondered what was going on!

I was brought up in a children's home called Llanddaff House with 25 girls, and I remember going down the air raid shelter 48 hours before the House got a direct hit with a bomb. We were lucky to be alive! They were after Victoria Railway station in Norwich but unfortunately they missed and hit our Children's home.

In 1938, at the age of 15 I worked in an a factory to make batteries for the war. I worked there about a year and later got a job in the Wrens.

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