IN response to the letter in The Press on Saturday, my mother-in-law, Anne Glover, also worked at the café in M&S York at Pavement (BHS was next door in those days).
I remember she backed on to the slicing machine and cut the top of her arm at the back and had to have medical aid at the store; but luck was with her, she didn’t need hospital treatment. This would be in 1948 or 1949.
She thought this was a step up from cleaning engines at the station. War work it was called and compulsory – you had to go where you were sent.
Ethel Glover, Highmoor Close, Dringhouses, York.
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