Working Through War

Working in Wartime

A few years later I had my gall bladder removed and my stones were as yellow as gunpowder. We worked mainly...

Memories of Priddy's Hard

Mrs Gladys M. Harget I lived in Gosport, Hants, during the Second World War and went to work at the Royal...

Life At Alfreton Hall

I am one of four sisters who worked at Alfreton Hall, the home of the Squire of Alfreton, Mr. Palmer...

My War Time Experience: A Teacher in Sheffield

On the night of Friday 13th December 1940, after a prolonged air raid, I was evacuated to a house in...

Busy Bee Joyce

Joyce would finish at the Fire Station at 6am, rush back home where father would have a cup of tea waiting...

Swynerton by Bus: Working in a Munitions Factory

I was 18 or 19 when I started work at the Swynmerton munitions factory on the first day it opened.A bus...

A Woman in Trousers!

I was 18 when war broke out and lived in Greenwich, London. My father nearly hit the roof as he didn't...

Wartime shelters

I worked in the offices of a munitions factory and when this was bombed the staff were evacuated to the...

A Railwayman's War: Part 2

I heard above me the droning sound of an aircraft, the droning sound belonged to a twin engined Heinkel...

Assorted London Memories: Working in a Grocers

I worked in London during the war, in a grocers....

Devotion to Duty

One of my deliveries consisted of driving a large mail van full of parcels and letters for our sailors...

Uniforms with a Difference

I worked at the Burtons Factory on the East Lancs Road in Manchester and I lived in Swinton. Enemy planes...

A Teenager's Recollections part 3...A Christmas Tradition

In those bygone cotton and weaving mills, it was a tradition at Christmas time for the young ladies to...

Filling Sandbags with the Firemen

I worked in munitions in the war and I remember on the first day war broke out I went to the local...

An Explosion at Ransomes, Ipswich.

He went to work at Ransomes, the famous engineering company in Ipswich, just by the docks. Ipswich suffered...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: The NAAFI

I was born in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear in1916. I later got married in 1959 to Richard Common and became a...

Putting on a Show For the Troops

Marjorie May Perkins talking to UCN Community Volunteer at Gabriel Court, Kettering, Northamptonshire. My...

Doodle Bug Over St. Paul`s

In 1941 I was a 15-year-old messenger on The Times newspaper working evenings collecting photos and copy...

Joan Singleton's War

We used to go to Tony's - the dance venue in Blackburn and also to Blackpool. On VE day I went to...

The Factory Horn

In the quiet little village of Castledawson most of the villagers were employed in the linen factory of J.A...

Smoke Bomb Factory

The factory made smoke bombs and ammunition....

Making Uniforms: In Ipswich

I lived in Henley Road in Ipswich... We started at eight, and worked on a conveyor belt, each adding their...

Being called up for 'war work'

Once we finished the training we took an exam which I passed and then I was sent to a factory in Watford...

One of the Many Air-Raids Over the Tyne

For 2 years,I worked for Tom S.Fords shop in Park View Whitley Bay.One of my first tasks ,every morning and...

My Parents Contribution in the War.

My mother was Marjorie Cis Durtnall, Her brother Petr and sister Peggy all worked at EMI records... Her...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: The Pop Factory

My name is Georgina Lawson and I am 93 years old living in St Peters Residential Home, North Tyneside... I...