When my parents moved back from Spondon in 1941 my dad worked at Bristol Aircraft and my mum, who hadn't worked since she got married, went to work at the ROF in Guide. She made the fuses for bombs (the place was known as the Fuse Factory). She wasn't there very long because she became pregnant - with me.
My aunt Elsie, who had a baker's shop, was also in the WVS and did various volunteer jobs including taking in girls, for a while, who were evacuated from Manchester. Another 2 of mum's sisters worked at "The Fuse", with mum, and her sister in Whitley Bay, my aunt Emmie, became a Red Cross Nurse who worked at a dressings station near the docks in North Shields until the end of the war.