From Bullets To Buttons
The first thing i did was to make myself a member of Langley Mill and Aldercar Cooperative Society, membership number 5554. Then i went to the Furnishing and Hardware Dept. at the bottom of Dean Street vanessa bruno pas cher, now part of the Bridge Centre, and made my first purchases as a new member. A sweeping brush, dustpan, bucket,floor cloths, scrubbing brush and soap. No vacuum cleaners then, if there had been it would have been no use as mains electricity was not laid up our street until the war was over. Luxuries like that had to be put on hold until after the war was over.
The bungalows were newly built, so we had builders rubble to contend with. I carried my cleaning requisites up to the top of Dean Street and over Queen Street recreation ground to Argyle Street. At that time there was a footpath to link up Bridge Street and Dean Street to the recreation ground.
I was half way across the rec , as we called it, when all the factory hooters went. It was 11.00am on November 11th 1938-Armistice Day. Everyone respected it and always observed the 2 minutes silence wherever they may be. wardens being appointed. Mr Hull was our Warden for Argyle Street lululemon sale. My baby son chan luu, Alan, was given a babies gas mask, a large contraption which the baby lay in, with a perspex window so that i could see him, a bit like an incubator. Mr Hull showed me how to use the hand pump to get oxygen in. Thankfully we never had to use them.
Sunday September 3rd.1939 came, a bright sunny morning. This must have been in use until the fifties as my niece was a collector for them in the Marlpool area then. I guess it would be more than sixpence then though!
We gathered round to hear Neville Chamberlain's speech to say;"As from that day Britain was at war with Germany". Families registered with shops of their choice and the first rationing started in January 1940. Each person was restricted to 4ozs of bacon or ham and 4ozs of butter a week.
As the war went on the list of rationed food got longer. By August 1942 the food ration for one person for one week was; 2ozs of butter, 2ozs of cheese vanessa bruno, 2ozs margerine, 2ozs cooking fat, 2ozs tea or coffee vanessa bruno, 4ozs jam or other preserve, 4ozs bacon, 12ozs meat, 1 egg and two pints of milk. Not much for one week tresor paris! Dried egg powder was introduced, not on ration. Mixed with water it was alright for cooking.
Clothes rationing came in in June 1941. Originally there were 66 coupons for each adult per year, which amounted to one new outfit. It was reduced to 48 coupons in 1942 lululemon. we were told to "make do and mend" I was thankful that i had a sewing machine and was a trained Cutter and Tailor. Although it was only a hand sewing machine it certainly saved me alot of coupons. I bought silk parchute panels from the Army and Navy stores and made real luxury undies pandora beads, nighties etc and hand embroidered them, to give a touch of class lululemon sale! Coats were cut down to make trousers and jackets for Alan when he was a toddler.
Young men and women were called for the forces ergo baby carrier, women were given the choice of working in munitions factories instead. Langly Mill, always known for it's industry, having canal,road and rail links, became even more so.
Collaros, bombed out in London in 1939, moved up to premises built for Vic Hallam. They manufactured shell cases and bullets amongst other things. Girls with boiler suits wearing turbans to protect their hair from the massive machinery, were doing men's work microsoft office 2007 product key!
Aristoc started making barrage balloons in 1940 chan luu sale, followed by rubber dingies, life jackets (nicknamed Mae Wests ,for obvious reasons) and emergency packs for baled out pilots. We worked for the government and drew our wages from the Post Office. One of my jobs was to stamp the govrnment acceptence mark, an arrow on the bullets after they had passed the final inspection.
I left after a year and went to Aristoc as they started to take part time workers which suited me. Alan had started school, so i was able to work school hours. While i worked at Collaros full time he had to stay with his grandparents all week.
My husband had been discharged from the army on medical grounds and was back at Aristoc when i went there. He was a shift foreman in the barrage balloon Dept in charge of the floor gangs vivienne westwood. Here girls had to wear knee pads and crawl on the floor to stick the panels together with latex adhesive.
My work was not as hard on the rubber dingies, we worked at tables tiffany blue nikes. Whatever job you did,there was always a strong smell of rubber which seemed to inpregnate your clothes and you took the smell hpme with you. Our navy blue overalls were covered with french chalk, which was used to dab along the seams to dry off the stickiness. When the workers left for home, either by bus or train, you knew instantly where they worked. If they smelled of rubber they were from Aristoc, Collaros' workforce smelled of oil!
For such a small village, thousands were employed in langley Mill. Not just the surronding towns of Heanor, Eastwood, Kimberley, Ripley, Ilkeston etc but as far as Chesterfield chan luu, Alfreton and other stations on route to Langley Mill by rail.
There was a good community spirit in wartime, everyone pulled together to help. We wanted to get on with the job and get our normal, peaceful lives back, and our fighting forces back home!
I started my war work stamping arrows on bullets at Collaros and finished it sewing buttons on raincoats for de-mobbed servicemen at Aristoc - from bullets to buttons!

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