Dorothy Slingsby (nee Turner) Stepping through the factory doors of the English Steel Corporation, the first thing that hit Dorothy Slingsby was the endless cacophony of noise.
It seemed to reverberate off every wall of the cavernous building. The continual heavy thudding, the ear-piercing screech of metal on metal and the sharp whirring of machines temporarily stopped Dorothy in her tracks.
It was like nothing she’d ever heard before. It was certainly worlds apart from the comfortable job she’d left just days earlier as a nanny for a well-to-do family.
But Dorothy refused to be deterred by the deafening racket of the steelworks. She had made a decision to ‘do her bit’, so that is what she would do.
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