238617 Winifred Bowers Munitions ROF Swynnerton from:Middle port, Stoke on Trent My mother, Winifred Bower), worked at Swynnerton during the War and travelled by train from home in Middleport. She was born in 1921 and died in 1968. I was told by my father that her skin turned yellow because of the chemicals. She died of cancer aged 47. Her father William Bowers was gassed in the trenches in one of the battles at Ypres in 1917 but was sent back home to recuperate in a nursing home in Cheshire. He died in 1929 during the flu epidemic. One lung had been permanently damaged in the war. I too have had but survived cancer at a youngish age. I do wonder about the impact on health of the chemicals used.
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