"She had it seen to and she was all right!"

They used to take you to the social club to give blood and take you back again – you’d get a couple of hours out of the office but they supported that really well.
_{[Tim, Morlands]}

I remember that we had a fire in footwear – where the hot tap went through, and we couldn’t get at the fire because it was in the trunking. So I cut a big hole in the trunking with my axe. That was quite amusing! They cut it out after, when they renewed it. They had it hung up in the fire station with my name on it.
_{[Jim, Baily’s and Morlands]}

They shut the road, they wouldn’t let nothing go through because there couldn’t be no sparks or nothing. We had to pump water from the sewerage over onto the river. And we got loads of foam from Yeovilton – they let us have all this foam – and that kept a cover over the river, stopped the fumes coming up. I can’t remember how many days this went on for and nights, but a long time, a week I expect, while they decided what to do about it.
_{[Jim, Baily’s and Morlands]}

A thunderstorm hit the substation at the back and knocked everything out. One chap on the phone, it was blown right out of his hand!
_{[Shirley, Baily’s]}

If you stitched your finger, she used to clean it. I think she was a nurse from the war years, so they were pretty good weren’t they?
Oh yeah, they were very good.
_{[Caroline and Fran, Morlands]}

I was there one time when a girl stitched her finger to a boot! We had to hold her and then get the needle out which wasn’t very nice. Oh yes, the nurse had to get the needle, she turned the wheel, and we held the girl. Got the thing out.
_{[Judith, Morlands]}

We had a sick bay, and the nurses were in there in the factory. ‘Cos when you stitched your finger, you had to go there. The machines go pretty fast, so you wouldn’t actually stitch through there, you’d stitch through here at the side. Then she’d just do it all up, and back to work.
_{[Fran, Morlands]}

One morning, the end of the stand fell off and this iron cabinet fell straight down through my shin onto my foot. Now we had a nurses’ station at Morlands, and I was taken there. And bear in mind that all the skin had come off my shin, so she put a heat-lamp on it. Why, I’ll never know! You didn’t get sent for an X-ray or anything because your nearest hospital was either Musgrove or Yeovil so you didn’t get sent anywhere.
_{[Julia, Morlands]}