Working Through War

Memories of younger days gone by

We lived in Beech Hill Avenue in Wigan. I remember one foggy winter we had to walk all the way back to...

Wartime life in Tisbury

Later that year evacuees bombed out of London descended on Tisbury. Pictures The Cole family Doris Stan who...

The Blitz and the Egg

My Nan, Mary Keegan, worked in a munitions factory during the war. she has told us of how she used wire...

Starting Work in WW2 in Croydon

For a few weeks I was slotted into classes in English, History and Art all of which I enjoyed until my form...

Working in the Munitions Factory

When we were 18 we had to join up but my friend didn't want to leave home, so we went to work...

My family's story at Looe & Par

My father Paul Quick Stevens was a wooden shipwright, he wanted to join the Navy but his work was a...

A Guineapig in a Munitions Factory

My mother though farm work would be too strenuous,so one summer I joined a group working in a munitions...

Aycliffe Angel

I worked in the munitions factory in Aycliffe, County Durham... I was at Aycliffe for about 2 years and...

Evacuated to Retford by Eddie Andrews

I went to stay with a lady called Mrs. Chambers, who was very formidable, at Moorgate Retford... Retford...

Wartime Radio Announcer

I decided to do my “Bit” and went to the Royal Ordinance Factory in Rotherwas, in Hereford...

The Aycliffe Angels

The name "The Aycliffe Angels" originates from a German Radio broadcast about the factory made by...

Horror on the Harvest Field: 1940

My first really close-up experience of war, which even now, sixty three years later, threatens to make me...

Globe Road School in Stepney

Our office was on stand-by for manning Rest Centres at a nearby school, which was equipped to recieve...

Sad Experience in the Doodlebug Days

The Doodlebug menace was getting serious so the WVS half way up the Crayford hill was open and outside was...

My Brother- A Short Life

I am the youngest of four children born in East Ham London, now part of "Newham". My idol was my...

Memories of a Somercotes lad

My dad Percy Annable who had been in the first world war used to say to me "never volunteer for...

A Rural Railwayman's War

Fred worked at the local station, which served both the Southern and Western Railways... A Bofors gun...

Swynnerton Telephonist

I got a job as a telephonist with Sir Alexander Gibbons Partners who were building the Swynnerton munitions...

We Played Cards for Entertainment

When I came home we used to go dancing at Goldthorpe catholic Church Hall. She thought she was a bit better...

Wartime Effort: Making Bricks in Bedfordshire

My parents stayed in London with the youngest children but they eventually came downto Flitwick as well. My...

Gwen Kirlew Chepstow Memories

With clothes and shoes on coupons, some of us bought boys shoes because they were only two coupons instead...

Nine lives

I lived in "Flying Bomb Alley" and as was very conscious of the German bombers flying overhead......

Attack on the Trinity House Lighthouse at Berry Head

We did civilian work and work for the Admiralty and Coast Guard and very often had to take batteries out to...

Happy Endings part 2

I started school at Amptill Road school, my dear friend Jean Glassser also a Londoner became my best friend...

The Iron Lady: Working at the Ironworks in Ironville

When the air raid sirens went off a fitter would climb onto my crane and I would have to manoever the crane...

Raids on the East Coast

RAF Leconfield Aerodrome was about 3 miles away and one Saturday I was out shopping in Beverley with mum...