War memories: The women's section of the voluntary fire service, with Pat Masterman's mother in the centre of the second row.
AN intriguing snapshot of life on the home front during World War Two comes courtesy of one Burnham resident this week.
Pat Masterman, from Broadhurst Gardens, found a photograph of her mother in the women's section of Burnham's voluntary fire service, taken in World War Two, hidden in her attic.
The picture has no date attached to it, but was taken during her spell in the voluntary fire service, which finished after the end of the war.
Pat Masterman told the Weekly News: "On a recent tidy up of our attic I came across some of my mother's old papers and found this photograph of the women's section of the voluntary fire service in Burnham.
"I do not know the exact year, only that my mother, Marjorie Mogg, was leading firewoman during the war.
"The names are shown but I do not think they are in order as my mother is seated in the centre of the second row, yet her name is on the bottom right. My mother's name was McFadden and she was always known as Madge.
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"She left the fire service after the war and worked in various local shops, becoming the first supervisor of Woolworth's when it opened in the early 1950's and later manager of the Co-op's drapery department in Highbridge."
The old photograph is signed by the female fire members and gives a Weston address at the bottom.
Do you recognise any of the faces in the photograph? Maybe they are friends or family?
To contact the Weekly News about any memories or to send in your own photographs write to: Weekly Memories, Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News, Royal Clarence House, High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3AT, or e-mail: newsdesk@burnhamnews.co.uk.
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