War work: In Edmonton

At the beginning of the war, my mother was working in the tax office. She was then evacuated to Wales. However her mother who disliked living alone stayed in London and thus my mother had to make frequent trips back to London. She found that the continual switch from the quiet countryside to a London under constant attack was more nerve-wracking than staying in London and so she left her job and returned to London. Here she applied for work and was sent to Belling and Lee where she became the forewoman in the plating factory, supervising the make-up of the plating cells.

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