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This story has been submitted to the People’s War website by Peter Quinn of the Lancs ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Guard on behalf of Josie Brown and has been added to the site with her permission…

In 1943, I started work as a card writer in Vickers Shipyard, Barrow; the most boring job imaginable for a girl of seventeen. I was then offered a job at the Library, so I went and asked for my cards. I was promptly told that I couldn’t leave because I was doing a job of national importance. So I went to appeal and said I spent most of the time knitting socks — so they were forced to let me go. I stayed in the library job for 40 years.

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