I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian ...

At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. We had workers playtime during our half hour break.