Working Through War

Life at the Village Shop

On a Saturday made home made ice cream and obtained the ice from Longfields, Fishmonger Worcester Rd...

Starting work in Brighton Locomotive Works

By 1941 Brighton was becoming unsafe and we were evacuated to Kettlewell, a small village in Yorkshire... I...

Prestwick Airport in World War II

If a kite had a tear in the side, we had to fix Alclad onto the wing and drill it so that...

The Real Boys of the Black Stuff

Being small, we used to be able to get into these very hot coal- burning boilers, into the wings and places...

Work and Weddings during the War - Ada Thomas

I was working at a tin box factory, for the first few months there was nothing, things went on as usual...

Bring them to Safety!

I was twenty-one and was living with my husband, Cyril, in Roundhay, Leeds, when war broke out in 1939. My...

Wartime Blues

Corsets to Parachutes

There was incendiary bombs dropped in the field opposite because Douglas' factory was in Hanham Rd, off...

Olden Days in the Country

I remember the day that Boulton and Paul's Riverside factory was bombed... At about 5 o'clock in...

The Dhobi Man: Liverpool Blitz

My father was a dhobi man - a washerman - and the family laundry - Wrigley's - was doing well enough to...

Great Moor Library in the Second World War by Elsie Howard (Nee Walker)

Great Moor Library in the Second World War – by Elsie Howard....

Bofors Guns and Blue Suede Shoes

I went into the Engineering works making Bofors guns at Patricroft near Eccles in Manchester. Ted and...

Bombs and Blackout

I was working at the Supermarine factory in Woolston, Southampton, making parts for the Spitfires, when a...

My Memories of the Second World War: Work in a Costing Office

One day when I was working in the office I suddenly heard a terrific noise, everyone jumped up thinking we...

A Railway Lad and the Yanks

The area between Braunton and Saunton was like a Kelki canvas town with Scottish and American troops and...

Working at Raine and Company ("the Delta")

It was like a scene from Hades when the molten iron came out the men had these suspended tongs, which they...

My Stories of the 2nd World War

Whilst I was there I watched people paint the roof window black, so the light wouldn't attract enemy...

Working During the War: In Coventry

Production was about 2 or 3 each week and wings and fuselage were individually covered in...

Wartime Telephonist

Messages were coming in from other exchanges and I heard worrying news about heavy bombing in East Ham, my...

Docklands Bombing

Half way through the war, we moved to Wimbledon as the bank I worked for in the City had moved their...

A Rare Find - A Female Cartographer

My cousin in Nursling heard that they were taking on 12 women and would train them in the drawing office......

My Teenage Years in World War 2 By Vera Warriner.

Although our parents always seem old to us when we are young, my father would only have been 42yrs old at...

memories of R.O.F. Swynnerton

Primrose and Ivy Spencer and myself started work at the R.O.F. Swynnerton at the start of the war... We had...

Mind That Crane !

I was operating an overhead crane, making parts of bombs until 1943 when my daughter was born... I had to...

Olive Cooke's Memories of War in Bristol

One other brother was a Naval Commando who survived the war but became mentally ill, i think as a result of...

Women working in munitions

Although we didn't think about the war, the firm I worked for, Charles Letts the diary people, were...