Memories of a housewife

by G_Girklin

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Contributed by: G_Girklin
People in story:: C Girklin
Location of story:: Aveley, Essex
Background to story:: Civilian
Article ID:: A8852457
Contributed on:: 26 January 2006

I was a housewife during the war. I worked in asbestos. Towards the end of the war I had a family. My husband was discharged when in Ireland. We managed the rations ok and we grew veg in the garden. When a bomb dropped in Purfleet Road it shook the house and we also saw the tanks bombed.

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