Working Through War

A Holbrook Girl in Derby

I grew up in Holbrook a small village in Derbyshire, with my mother and father, Edwin and Eliza Carrington...

Keeping Spirits Up

Joyce once worked making lockers for flying crew and tables for the mess.This all took place in Yatten...

Motttingham

Beatrice Davies lived in Mottingham, South London, duringthe war, and travelled to work at The Ring, a...

Building Boats in Burnham

When I was 20, I was called up to do war work and was sent to a boat yard at Burnham which...

My Wartime Memories

Matty remembers the bombing of Clydebank in 1941 and the fire bombing of Ardeer Explosives Factory –...

A Happy Ending

I had three brothers — Arthur, who is still alive, and the twins, Ken and Sid. Dad was not strong but...

National Service - Trade Training

The driver cum conductor was a somewhat butch type of woman who controlled the passengers on the bus with a...

I Always had My Tin Hat and a Gas Mask

After I left the BBC in December 1940 I started working on the railways with my uncle who was a train...

A Riveting Tale!

My partner was a girl called Katherine Bryce, and together we did many intricate little jobs on the huge...

Hotel Guests in Falmouth

Some guests insisted on sleeping in our extensive cellars, where we had installed beds, running water and...

A Night to remember: A V1 over Bushey Park

We invited them join us in the Lensbury Club and in return they invited our staff to the concerts at Bushey...

Gas Masks at the Ready

The factory was just down the road from Tisbury at Pythouse tennis club which had been taken over by the...

A Railwayman's War: Part 1

In 1939 at the age of 16years I started work as an Engine cleaner at the Shoeburyness LMS London,Tilbury...

A Near Miss in Edge Lane

She made communication equipment for submarines.Living in Wallasey she had to get a boat over to Liverpool...

Herm, Guernsey

As I had to work in Guernsey I was only able to visit for holidays and had to obtain a permit from...

A Teenager's Recollections of the Second World War

Soon after I came to live in this centuries old village, 64 years ago, I started work as a young apprentice...

The BBC in Bedford

After that I worked in various departments, including the Music Dept when Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Arthur...

My Great Grandma's Interview

My Great Grandma's name back then was Elizabeth Watinson and she was only seventeen when the war...

Working for Ceag

In 1942 Ceag sent me to Coventry, place called Baffington Fields. We lived in a Nissan hut and had to get a...

Seventeen in the Blitz

Being near Alexandra Palace, which has two large lakes in its grounds, which at full moon would be very...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-1948 Part 4

Helmeted and booted I made my way to the lamp room and exchanged one of my two brass tokens with my works...

The Finishing School

I had to pick some kind of war work to do, so I decided to go to the factory in Spennymoor. I...

Home Front in Kilmarnock

Jack Niven was an engineer and before that he was a footballer at Bonnyton Square – he played for...

The Army take over at Manor Farm in Yorkshire!

We used to separate the cream from the milk, and we turned the cream into butter and we used to feed the...

Medal Winner!

Following the end of the War in Europe, I was notified by the Ministry of Aircraft production in June 1945...

Human Canaries

One lady in particular says she worked on a bench in the North side, and she dealt with cordite this...