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Originally Posted by West Ender
..... My parents and my brothers were living in Spondon, near Derby, and not very far from the heavily camouflaged Rolls Royce aero-engine factory which was being targeted by bombers every night, though it was never hit ......
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Quite a coincidence, West Ender -- I am very familiar with Spondon for an Uncle (Herbert Pickering, brother of my Father) and aunt lived there. They moved there from Burnley in the mid 1930s to work for Celanese (hard to get good weaving jobs in Lancashire during the depression) which as you know was close to Spondon. They lived in a small cottage on the road that led into the village from the north. We visited them before the war (1938 I believe) -- I liked Spondon which was quite rural in those days. My uncle left Celanese to work for Rolls Royce when the war started. Eventually they moved into Derby closer to the RR works.