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When i got to belfast, i found that our headquarters was in the belfast castle, above the river, and we could see ships coming in and out. and sometimes they sent ships who had been in the atlantic to be repaired in the dockyard. meanwhile, we wrens ran the plot up in belfast and had the whole of the west coast and particularly the whole atlantic in a plot on the wall. one day, i was watching the ships come in from our castle office, and i saw a ship, a destroyer coming in, hms oribi she was called, and she was involved in various battles in the atlantic and needed some repairs, so she had her...

The advertisement said join the wrens so that you could free a sailor to go to sea, meaning that obvioiusly a lot of the work that men did could be done by girls, so that was how it started. when i got to belfast, i found that our headquarters was in the belfast castle, above the river, and we could see ships coming in and out. and sometimes they sent ships who had been in the atlantic to be repaired in the dockyard. meanwhile, we wrens ran the plot up in belfast and had the whole of the west coast and particularly the whole atlantic

Civilians and service people got together, helped one another. you couldn't look far _ into the future, you might only have had a fortnight's leave and then i he might be killed at the end of it. you had no idea whati was going to happen, so you just put up with it. the advertisement said join the wrens so that you could free a sailor to go to sea, meaning that obvioiusly a lot of the work that men did could be done by girls, so that was how it started.

That went to the guns in big pipes. so remember, we are walking over them pipes — not treading on them, walking over them. sometimes almost falling over. that was ourjob. so, i applied tojoin the wrens in march 1944. and when i told them that i was a gpo—trained switchboard operator, i could tell more or less that i'd be accepted. portsmouth in march—april 191m

On their arrival was to send a message to the ward room, asking us down to have a drink on board. they had their priorities obviously right. so half a dozen of us went down to have a drink on board and there i metjohn lamb, my future husband, and in ten days we decided to get married. the next morning they sailed off to join this convoy which was leaving just north of belfast. we were absolutely vital because at the moment we were unable to feed ourselves, we had the most terrible rationing. i mean, rationing — it wasn't bad for wrens because we have the naval stores, but for ordinary people...