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The photograph is of many children in an aircraft hangar at the famous A.V. Roe factory,Greengate,in Chadderton,now pqrt of Oldham,North Manchester. They made Lancaster bombers there. The factory later became known as Hawker Siddley and is now called British Aerospace.
The little girl on the right pointing to her teeth is Mavis Terry. She is my sister and is now 66.From what she told me she is sitting next to Audrey Liggett her friend who lived in the same street- Heather Street in Clayton. Her family were involved in the evangelical church mission hall in Clayton. This party took place in 1945 and they were there because their fathers worked at A.V. Roe's. Our father Fred Terry worked on the Lancaster bomber and was part of the team that rebuilt the undercarriage of the bomber to take the famous bouncing bomb which blasted dams in Germany and was responsible for the bombing of Dresden towards the end of the war.
My sister is wearing a dress with puffed sleeves and I know that this was the style of dress that my mother could "run up" on her Singer sewing machine. I was made to wear exactly the same style of dress some 10 years later. She also has her hair in ringlets,which were achieved by having your hair pulled around strips of rags when it was wet, the tighter the better. You had to sleep with them in because in the morning it would all be unwound and you would have lovely corkscrew curls. This had probably happened to my mother as a child in the 1920s.

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