1917 – 1947
“My father and uncle both worked at Shorts, the latter throughout the war. He told me stories of being a ‘Fire Warden’ and the bombing of the factory along The Esplanade.
Before he died my uncle gave me a set of tools and a toolbox that he had made as an apprentice at Shorts. He told me that it was part of the course to get his ‘letters’.”
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