My mother also worked in Cossors Highbury before and during WW11. It originally made radios, and was used to make electronic parts for planes during war. My mother never mentioned Cossors making munitions, and its unlikely that such a factory would be placed in a residential area.
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27-07-2019, 7:40 PM #11
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31-07-2019, 7:33 AM #12thewideeyedowlGuest
Good morning, Andygs, and a very warm welcome to Brit gen..
Thank you for your help here. If you read through posts #2 - #10, you will see that forum research was pointing to fuses/assembly work/radar. If my grandmother had ben involved in the assembly of fuses, she might have said that she was "working in munitions"(?).
There is now nobody left to ask - my grandmother died in 1998 and my mother (glossed as 'an elderly relative' here) in 2017.
Swooping off.
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31-07-2019, 8:48 AM #13
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Thanks for reply and info, yes I see point about fuses being part of munitions. My mother only ever mentioned valves and maybe that was the only dept she was ever in, I doubt if she would have been told about what was going on elsewhere. She died in 1993 and I really regret not discussing her experience at Cossors and finding out more. She gave birth to her first child, my sister, in September 1943 so would have stopped work there before the war finished.
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