Nan

This is my dear old Nan who told me many stories when I was a boy. It must be because of her that I love history so much. She never really spoke about anything she did during the war. However, after she died I found an interview that I must have done with her when I was 9 or 10 years old. Some far-sighted teacher must have asked us to go away and interview a relative about WWII. I am very thankful to this teacher as there are many things that I would never have known. In this interview Nan says that she went to work at Thorpe Arch, Yorkshire. She wanted to stay down South, for some reason, but had finally been "ordered" to go up North by my Grandfather. Possibly after her own Grandmother had been killed in bombing. She says that her and another girl were some of the first people to be taken on at Thorpe Arch. She was a Comptometer Operator and worked in Accounts. The other girl did the munitions workers wages, whilst she did all the different tradesmen's wages "because it was more complicated as they were on different scales".