I trained as a centre lathe turner, and made things in metalware a lot of the time. That was in Keighley in Yorkshire. I trained in Leeds, but I worked in Keighley. We were making parts for engines.

Towards the end of the war, in Coventry, I was 18 and working about nine hours a day in a munitions factory (the old Daimler factory).I was working on a centre lathe, working with men, boys and women.