Working Through War

Married life in Bridge of Weir during the War

I met my husband in 1940 and married him in 1942, he was in the Argyll and Sutherland regiment and 6 weeks...

Munitions

Later, I went to Rolls Royce making jet engines, I lived where Mitchell lived in stoke on Trent... I met my...

Girls flew Spitfires to aerodromes

I worked at Chattis Hill, Stockbridge where Spitfires were assembled and tested. I have been back to...

Steel Works Mould Setter

My Grandfather during the war was a Mould Setter in the Firth and John Browns Steel Works. Henry George...

Being a Teacher during the Air-Raids

Teachers today don't have to contend with such hardships....

Dad's Midland Red Bus in the Air Raids

Mom and Dad lived in ST Lukes St Cradley Heath, and during the second world war Dad worked for the Midland...

Saved by Shingles: Dad and the Mulberry Harbour

Although he was passed A1 for military service he was seconded for 'essential war work'. This work...

Memories of Wolverley

We used to live at Solcum Cottage, not far from us was the Smith family at Solcum Farm and they had a...

From Tank Tracks to Lambing

I helped at Barnsley Hall when the Dunkerque soldiers were billeted there for recovery... I had a good time...

Gloucestershire Aicraft Company - from the Canteen

I started working life at the age of 14 putting saftey pins onto cards at the Whitecroft Pin factory on the...

Just Getting on with Things

I worked in a Munition factory in Oldham - often worked nights. We didn't get particulary bombed - we...

Life on a Gloucestershire Farm

We had an air raid shelter, and Mum would grab me and take me downstairs when an air raid ciren went off....

Making Bomb Parts: In Ipswich

My husband was in the RAf, and he flew over to France on D-Day, landing at Aramanche....

Wartime in Ipswich

We lived in Samuel Road and I worked at Buntons Jam Factory, and then at Churchmans. I remember sitting on...

War work: In Edmonton

However her mother who disliked living alone stayed in London and thus my mother had to make frequent trips...

Immigrants and Refugees in Yate

During the war there were a lot of Irish labourers in Yate, and they lived up in what is now called Kennedy...

Train Explosion

My parents were both factory workers during the war and had their baby daughter looked after by a relative...

Telegram Service, London

My godmother Dorothy Taylor worked on the telegram service thru the war and until she retired....

Acton Air Raid

My father, Bert Friston, was an engine driver on the Great Western Railway from the 1930's until he...

Telegrams at Bedford Post Office

One day a telegram came through it was to the family with condolence of Sir Henry Wood's death and of...

On the Buses: Memories of a Bus Conductor

I loved my job as a bus conductress on the local bus company the PMT....

Lotti Minstrall

Lotti Minstrall...

'Weaned on Wellingtons'

Did an aviation apprenticeship from 1940 to end of war and beyond, at Vickers Armstrongs, Weybridge, where...

The Youngest Shorthand Typist

In 1939 at 16 years old, I was the youngest shorthand typist working in the Education Department in...

Dangerous Work: Making Ammunition in Swynnerton

I was taken from working in the potts to ammunitions work at swynnerton....

From Yarmouth to Ealing

We came to live in London, in the West Ealing area....