Job included operating perilously high cranes in dangerous factories, manufacturing munitions, driving fire engines or signing up to be a nurse in the auxiliary services. She did so despite it being just months after her husband, Tom, was decapitated in a horrific steel factory accident after his scarf got tangled in a machine belt. Nearly every one of the women described walking into those monstrous factories as like entering “hell on earth”. Peggy Alderson began working at another steel factory, William Cook, not long after Neville Chamberlain announced Britain was at war. The factories were incredibly dangerous places, but the women did what they had to, without complaint.

Source: Daily Mirror April 30, 2021 18:06 UTC