Worked at barrage balloon centre at Sutton outside Hull as telephonist and then trained others.Trained at Uxbridge and then Leighton Buzzard to plot and passed out as one of the first members of the WAAF. Then Fighter Command at Stanmore (Bentely Priory) 1939-40 (Dowding was head of fighter command then) but then left the airforce because mother was ill. Worked for Company Secretary of Reckitts. Saw the bombing of Hull. And then took a job as a civilian in Hut 3 Bletchley Park from 1941 (where decoded Enigma messages were translated) where she met MLC-J. Hut 3 is still standing and part of the Bletchley Park Museum.