Millions Like Us (80 page)

page 154.
‘Mary Fedden chose …’: from Nicholson, ed.,
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?

page 155.
‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey would …’: PC-H/A.

pages 155–6.
‘Christian Oldham in the Wrens …’: CL/HAT.

page 156.
‘For Audrey Johnson …’: cited in CL/HAT.

page 157.
‘evacuated from Ilford …’: NB/TIME.

page 157.
‘WAAF Flo Mahony …’: FM/A.

page 158.
‘Mavis Lever was well aware …’: MB/A.

page 158.
‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey couldn’t bear …’: PC-H/A.

page 158.
‘And according to Joan Wyndham …’: JW/LB.

page 158.
‘Ex-debutante Wren …’: de Courcy,
Debs at War
.

page 158.
‘When Barbara Pym …’: Pym,
A Very Private Eye
.

page 158.
‘I was used to dear …’: de Courcy,
Debs at War
.

page 158.
‘One well-educated Wren …’: private information.

pages 159–63.
‘The story of Christian Oldham’s life …’: CL/A; CL/HAT.

pages 163–9.
‘Eighteen-year-old Pip Beck …’: PB/PP; PB/WAAF.

page 167
‘Not a Cloud in the Sky …’: lyrics taken from version written and composed by Tommie Connor and Eddie Lisbona.

page 170.
‘Frances Partridge’s small corner …’: FP/PW.

pages 170–71.
‘Sheila Hails was born …’: SH-J/A.

pages 171–2.
‘Not all female conscientious objectors …’: see Denis Hayes,
Challenge of Conscience
.

page 172.
‘the artist Mary Fedden …’: Nicholson, ed.,
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?

page 173.
‘Cliff seems …’: NL/NLW.

page 173.
‘Three years today …’: CM/MM.

pages 173–5.
‘Anne Popham’s lover …’: AP/A; AP/PP.

Chapter 6: The Girl That Makes the Thing-ummy Bob

page 176.
‘250,000 20–21-year-olds …’: taken from
The Daily Sketch
, 1942.

page 176.
‘A convocation of …’: cited in Grieve,
Millions Made My Story
.

page 177.
‘Rage stirred …’: see Edith Olivier,
Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady
.

pages 177–8.
‘But in Barrow-in-Furness …’: NL/NLW.

page 178.
‘Vere Hodgson …’: Vere Hodgson,
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940
–
45.

page 178.
‘one WAAF to put on two stone …’: JT/A.

page 178.
‘a nutritious picnic treat …’:
The Good Housekeeping Book of Thrifty War-Time Recipes
(approved by the Ministry of Food).

page 178.
‘
Woman’s Own
gave recipes …’:
Woman’s Own
, 1943.

page 178.
‘
The Daily Express
…’: see
The Wartime Scrapbook
.

pages 178–9.
‘Nella Last was proud …’: NL/NLW.

page 179.
‘the Advice Division …’: newspaper cutting cited in Bette Anderson,
We Just Got on with It – British Women in World War II.

page 179.
‘Try cooking cabbage …’:
The Wartime Scrapbook.

pages 179–80.
‘In 1942 the home economist …’: MP/A.

pages 180–81.
‘We never went without …’: FM/A.

page 181.
‘Eileen Rouse says …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.

pages 181–4.
‘One of these was Zelma Katin …’: Zelma Katin,
Clippie: The Autobiography of a War Time Conductress
.

page 184.
‘Mrs Milburn marvelled …’: CM/MM.

pages 184–5.
‘the writer Amabel Williams-Ellis …’: Amabel Williams-Ellis,
Women in War Factories
.

pages 186–7.
‘Until 1942 Thelma Ryder lived …’: TR/A.

page 187.
‘Emily Jones’s face …’: Margaretta Jolly, ed.,
Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders of the Second World War
.

pages 188–9.
‘Elsie Whiteman and …’: Sue Bruley, ed.,
Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory
.

page 190.
‘Among the Yorkshire welders …’: Jolly, ed.,
Dear Laughing Motorbyke
.

pages 190–91.
‘My initiation …’: cited in Longmate, ed.,
The Home Front
.

page 191.
‘Margaret Perry was another …’: Margaret Perry’s untitled memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.

page 191.
‘The welders seem not …’: Jolly, ed.,
Dear Laughing Motorbyke
.

page 191.
‘One investigation …’: see Pearl Jephcott,
Rising Twenty: Notes on Some Ordinary Girls
.

page 192.
Making a thing …’: see ‘The Thing-Ummy-Bob’, written by Gordon Thompson and David Heneker.

pages 192–3.
‘In their off-duty …’: Jolly, ed.,
Dear Laughing Motorbyke
.

page 193.
‘Amabel Williams-Ellis’s book …’: Amabel Williams-Ellis,
Women in War Factories
.

page 194.
‘One day … a gang of us …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend,
War Wives
.

page 194.
‘a joke started …’: see Costello,
Love, Sex and War
.

pages 194–5.
‘When the GIs from Steeple Morden …’: see Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert and Barbara Smith Scibetta,
War Brides of World War II
.

page 195.
‘As Madeleine Henrey wrote …’: MH/LONDON.

pages 196–7.
‘When African American …’: see Shukert and Scibetta,
War Brides.

page 197.
‘Frances Partridge wrote …’: FP/PW.

pages 197–9.
‘Dolly Scannell, a married …’: Scannell,
Dolly’s War
.

page 199.
‘Margaret Tapster used to dance …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A5827665.

page 199.
‘While American women …’: see Shukert and Scibetta,
War Brides.

pages 199–200.
‘[Eddie] told me …’ [also Ruth Patchen story]: see
http://uswarbrides.com/bride_stories/index.html
.

page 200.
‘Nineteen-year-old Mary Angove …’: MD/A.

pages 200–201.
‘Barbara Cartland would be …’: BC/YO.

pages 201–4.
‘Corporal ‘Mike’ Morris’s …’: AC/ENEMY.

pages 204–8.
‘A startlingly pretty debutante …’: HL/CI.

page 208.
‘Clara Milburn listened …’: CM/MM.

page 208.
‘the London diarist …’: Hodgson,
Few Eggs and No Oranges
.

pages 208–9.
‘Kathleen Church-Bliss …’: Bruley, ed.,
Working for Victory
.

page 209.
Frances Partridge hardly …’: FP/PW.

page 209.
‘Two Sundays ago …’: see
A Churchill Anthology
.

page 209.
‘Nella Last listened …’: NL/NLW.

Chapter 7: Sunny Intervals

page 210.
‘WAAFs like R/T operator …’: PB/WAAF.

page 210.
‘Wren Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.

page 210.
‘Hearts do break …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend,
War Wives
.

pages 211–13.
‘Today, Cora Williams …’: CW/A.

page 214.
‘a Blitz survey …’: cited in Harrisson,
Living through the Blitz
.

pages 214–15.
‘Nella Last and her husband …’: NL/NLW.

page 214.
‘Doffy Brewer still remembers …’: DB/A.

page 214.
‘Doris Scorer’s days off …’: DW/DV.

page 215.
‘Mary Fedden went …’: from Nicholson, ed.,
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?

page 215.
‘Barbara Pym was …’: Pym,
A Very Private Eye
.

page 215.
‘Clara Milburn found …’: CM/MM.

pages 215–16.
‘Susan Woolfit’s war work …’: in Jenny Hartley, ed.,
Hearts Undefeated – Women’s Writing of the Second World War
.

page 216.
‘You lived at that period …’: CW/A.

pages 216–20.
‘Phyllis Noble longed …’: PW/CAW; PW/CCA.

pages 220–23.
‘Joan Wyndham’s war …’: JW/LB.