I WAS very interested in the recent correspondence about the Dubarry Perfumery near Hove Station.

I started work there in 1941 at just 14. I was in the filling and finishing room on the top floor, earning 12s 6d a week for working from 8am to 5pm. I paid 4p National Insurance a week. When the air-raid warning sounded we would hurry down to the basement storage area.

I can still smell the sachet rings made out of cork and we put coloured ribbon round them. You had to get the length absolutely right.

They were happy days.

Sylvia Owen, Easthill Way, Portslade