219561 Elsie Taylor Munitions Worker My mother Elsie Taylor worked at the Swynnerton Munitions Factory during WWII. She was a Swynnerton Rose.
She didn't say much about this time in her life but she did tell me that one day she was working and had to ask to go to the toilet(you had to ask). She went out of the hut and into the toilet block, as she sat there the earth shook, a terrible loud explosion rocked the block. She came out to dust clouds and panic.
When it cleared the hut she was just working in had gone, all the women in side had been blown up. She was reassigned to another block and she continued her work.
Air raids, explosions, disscoloured hands, hair, bodies, missing limbs or fingers... all a part of the life there.
These ladies need remembering and in 2013 a Labour MP started a group to this end.
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