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A lady from Bloomfield talks about her working life in the 1940s and 50s - at Vickers Armstrong during the Second World War, then as a comptometer at Nutbrowns, and later as a cashier where she met stars such as Bruce Forsyth and Frankie Vaughan.

Tags: 1941, Atherton, Beverly Sisters, Bruce Forsyth, comptometer, Frankie Vaughan, Nutbrowns, Squires Gate, Vickers Armstrong, Wellington bombers, work

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