We were 12 girls to a hut, and our job was to blend the sticks of cordite, walking round and round the... One lovely hot summer day, a month after I left my work, Archie Ritchie and I were married in ...
To make up to myself for the lack of nice things to eat, I learned to smoke at that time. It was the fashion. Everybody smoked. But as the war progressed, cigarettes became very scarce, and you had to ...
Archive List > Books > Some Memories of the Dynamite by Helen Ritchie We were 12 girls to a hut, and our job was to blend the sticks of cordite, walking round and round the... One lovely hot summer ...