I READ with personal interest the feature “Choc Plant drama” (The Press, November 30). My late mother was one of the workers at Terry’s factory, then became a propeller sprayer.
She spoke of the hard work involved in doing ‘peace work”; I believe that was the term she used.
She worked the night shifts and used to walk home to her sisters house in Burnholme, no mean task after working all night. Mum lived with her sister while dad was overseas, conscripted into the forces. She had nowhere else to live.
It must have been hard times for wives left behind. And at times they took on the male role during the war years. I can see mum in your photograph, and very proud of what she did.
K Jenkins, Huntington Road, York.
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