Working Through War

Bums in Washbowls!

A favourite perch for the smokers was to sit with bottoms flopped inside one of the many washbowls. She...

A Near Miss for Me.

They were both working at the Vickers Armstrong aircraft factory at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey....

Failsworth Bomb

There was an unexploded bomb in the field opposite the office so no-one was allowed near... We then took...

Memories of Service in the NAAFI

Because I was working in a NAAFI things never got too dangerous, although we did get bombed by planes going...

No Holds Barred

My dad, an ex Gallipoli veteran from W.W.1. rejoined the army and was sent to the Pacific Isles... My...

'You Were Young, and You Just Carried On'

He ended up a staff Sergeant, so he must've done all right, and we married in 1942, when I was working...

My work at Aristoc in Langley Mill

My wage in the shop was 15 shillings a week.When the war started, I had the chance to get a job in...

A Teenager in Wartime Sunderland

I will always remember the night a bomb landed on the railway station in Sunderland — the explosion...

WAR TIME IN PAISLEY

We lived at 20, Wallis Street, Paisley, Scotland... Not long after that the Duke of Kent was killed in a...

The Aldwych Buzzbomb (V1) 1944

Later I was tranferred to Bush House which lies between Fleet Street/Strand and Aldwych facing directly up...

A Gasman's memories

The locations mentioned are Gosport in Hampshire & Falmouth in Cornwall. I should mention that father...

A Clippie's Tale

If I was on an early shift I used to cycle from Acol to the Westwood bus station. I was on the...

The Davies Family at War; Working in the Munitions Factory at aged 14 by Ronald Davies

The Davies Family at War; Working in the Munitions Factory at aged 14 by Ronald Davies. There was a...

A Jew in Germany and a German in England

My mother, Rosa Blumert, was born in Zeven, a place in the north of Germany in 1.921 to a Jewish family; as...

Every Day Life in Holloway

One day, I was in the pub with my mum and dad and Frank telephoned the landlady to say he was home....

Wartime Memories of an ARP in Reddish by Gladys Jackson (nee Fearnley)

Wartime Memories of an ARP in Reddish by Gladys Jackson. One night there was an air raid and the Ack Ack...

Normal Life During the War

We didn't get any direct hits on my house which was very lucky however our next door neighbour did, as...

Working at the Photographer's

It was only a short journey from Norwich Thorpe Station to where my grandma lived in Marlingford. Because...

World War II Memories of Mrs V Garner

I also stayed in Raynes Park, and there was no shelter, but here my friend and I took turns firewatching at...

Wartime Medical Studies: Southampton and North Africa

I prepared to study medicine and at the outbreak of war I had a short time in the Auxillary Fire Service in...

A Norfolk Village War

I was nineteen years old in the year that war broke out and I was living with my parents, Henrietta and...

Memoirs of WW2

I started my first job as a 16 year old clerk - telegraphist at Warrenpoint Railway station in 1943. Very...

Fate Takes A Hand!

One evening, my father was talking to the Clerk of the Herne Bay Urban District Council, who told him that...

GPO telephonist 1944 - 1945

The three of us went for a meal in town and then joined in the festivities on the Market Square When I...

Wartime Memories in Norwich and Ely

In the raid of April 1942 we were lucky to escape uninjured owing to the fact that as we lived in a...

A Busy War

I enjoyed driving, and I felt that I was doing something useful, and what's more I was stationed in a...