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Object description
Extracts (pp 72-94 only) from an undated ts memoir written by the daughter, aged nineteen in 1939, of a GP in a Nottinghamshire village describing her family's preparations for the outbreak of war (August - September 1939), her continuing employment as an apprentice, and later an 'improver', dispenser at a chemist's shop in Nottingham (September 1939 - October 1941), her attendance on a course at an engineering training centre in Leicester (autumn 1941) and her subsequent employment as a centre lathe turner at a General Electric Company (GEC) factory in Leicester (January - November 1942) and then at a factory near Nottingham manufacturing shells and rockets (December 1942 - summer 1945); and also including interesting references to the increasingly harsh impact of rationing and other wartime exigencies on her and her parents' lives and finances, her and others' reactions to major events during the course of the war, her wartime cycling holidays with a friend and her younger brother in the Peak District and elsewhere in the Midlands, conditions in her lodgings in Leicester and her recollections of the celebrations to mark VE and VJ Days and the Labour Party's victory in the 1945 General Election.
Content description
Extracts (pp 72-94 only) from an undated ts memoir written by the daughter, aged nineteen in 1939, of a GP in a Nottinghamshire village describing her family's preparations for the outbreak of war (August - September 1939), her continuing employment as an apprentice, and later an 'improver', dispenser at a chemist's shop in Nottingham (September 1939 - October 1941), her attendance on a course at an engineering training centre in Leicester (autumn 1941) and her subsequent employment as a centre lathe turner at a General Electric Company (GEC) factory in Leicester (January - November 1942) and then at a factory near Nottingham manufacturing shells and rockets (December 1942 - summer 1945); and also including interesting references to the increasingly harsh impact of rationing and other wartime exigencies on her and her parents' lives and finances, her and others' reactions to major events during the course of the war, her wartime cycling holidays with a friend and her younger brother in the Peak District and elsewhere in the Midlands, conditions in her lodgings in Leicester and her recollections of the celebrations to mark VE and VJ Days and the Labour Party's victory in the 1945 General Election.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2003-11