Bomb Girls--Britain's Secret Army by Jacky Hyams

Author:Jacky Hyams [Jacky Hyams]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781782197164
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2013-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

LAURA’S STORY: AN ANGEL AND A ROSE

‘WE WERE TINY COGS IN A SECRET ARMY’

Laura Hardwick was born in Trimdon, County Durham, in 1921. She has the double distinction of being both an ‘Aycliffe Angel’ and a ‘Swynnerton Rose’. She spent two years making bullets at Aycliffe until she was called up and had to leave home to work at Swynnerton in Staffordshire, where she helped make detonators for the Navy. After the war she married and remained in the Bishop Auckland area. Her husband, Bill, died in 1996, age 80. She has one son, three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. This is her story:

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