Working Through War

Me at 14.

It was working on Wellington Bombers, inspection pistons for the aircraft engines.So that was my first...

War work in Birmingham

Before we got the Morrison shelter we had to go up to George Road public shelter. We didn't get the...

A Railwayman's War: Part 4

A German airman with his badly damaged parachute above him, landed somewhere between St.Augustines church...

Esther Haigh Working on the Trams

Our mum Esther Haigh worked as a tram conductress in the war....

Working in Coventry

In 1943 I decided to go to Coventry, having an auntie there whose son had told me that wages there were...

Sewing Factories

I worked in a sewing factory making shirts but they turned us over to make battle dress. If you were...

Wartime on the Thames Barges

In 1936 I started working on the Thames barges that supplied fresh water to mostly merchant shipping...

Hednesford

In Feb 42 I started at the Post Office at Hednesford as a boy messenger. Some telegrams were reporting the...

Barrage Balloons

During the first year of the war, I worked at the barrage balloon factory in Millbrook Road, Southampton....

Southampton to Gloucester

He worked on the railways in Gloucester as a plasterer from 1940. We came to Gloucester from Southampton to...

Drummonds Packaging, Greenock and the War

Then we did cigarette tins for the troops, meat cans for the troops....

My father's 9 years of War Work

My father, Ellis Rowell, started war work in 1936 when he got a job at Debden in Essex building the...

The Reluctant Clippie

After being evacuated for a year or more I eventually, after being called up several times, reluctantly...

Mile End First Aid Post, Aberdeen: Memories of Mrs Kay Hamilton

The night the German plane dropped a bomb into Rubislaw Quarry, the ground fairly shook - presumably it had...

Memories of Romford

My wife was a “nippy” at the Lyons Tea Shop in Ilford. I remember going past a pub where lots...

Rambling Roses and Rivets

From dirndl skirts and rambling roses in their hair to dungarees and big boots, my three sisters’...

Working during the War

During the Second World War, Margaret Weaver was living in Leamington, but now lives in Tilston,...

My Wartime Experiences

I joined the Girls training corps and I worked at Norah Wellings Toy factory in Wellington and then at Mrs...

Lucky Day

My father worked for the admiralty during the war, as he was a marine engineer working on the warships as...

The War Years: Working as a Milkman and for the Petroleum Board

WHEN I WAS ON THE MILK ROUND WE HAD HORSE PULLED CARTS, AND THE MILK WAS RATIONED AND YOU HAD TO REMEMBER...

Plane Crashes over Northumberland

As one of the spitfires tried to join in the path of the plane, it hit the back of one of the...

Teen Years

We all had scary moments with bombs exploding, gunfire noise, etc. An unexploded huge bomb landed killing...

Under fire! At the Glascoed Munitions Factory

At the Glascoed Munitions Factory. This contribution is posted by Torfaen Libraries on behalf of Evelyn...

The Billiard Room

One day some Oranges arrived, and mum could hardly contain her excitement, as oranges had not been seen for...

Printing D-Day Maps

A few months later our manager came round and told us the maps had been used for the RAF Navigators as part...

The Day Off

I was a propeller shaper for Hurricanes and Spitfires at a place near Addlestone in Surrey. It then dawned...