Evelyn trained as a Tailor/ dress maker. She worked at LCW in the upholstery department during WW2in the Hush Hush shop, working on secret missions for the Army supporting the war effort, she spoke about making floats for the Bailey Bridges and the overlays for the Horsa Gloder planes, which were used to support the Normandy Landings. Evelyn was always very proud of the work they undertook
Evelyn lived at the time in Hove and travelled every day on the Lancing Belle to work at the Lancing Carriage Works, using the train she used to tip a lads hat off who worked at the railway station as he was seeing the train off safely as he worked on the platform, (later she married this chap 20-10-1945) and moved to Ferring and started a family, Evelyn’s husband Horace Alfred Ford known as Henry then moved and worked at Worthing Railway Station as platform guard/ chargeman.
