Working Through War

Junior Chemist in War

In May 1940, Mr Anthony Eden, appealed for volunteers to join the local defence volunteers, so the next...

Reminiscences of a Timbergill

It was in November 1942 that I started work for the Ministry of Supply, in the woods outside Arundel in...

Wartime Apprentice

My parents lived near a mining village 5 miles from Wakefield and because I needed to attend Technical...

Betty's war

There were swing doors in the wall and out of reach the door into the workroom so that the outer door...

Land Mines and Bevan Boys

This was Ernest Bevan's 'marvellous' scheme to call up young boys from all over the UK to work...

Glynn Howe- Reporting for Duty

Glynn as one of 3000 young men who trained in Canada and England as Telegraphist Air Gunners in the open...

Munitions at British Timken, ARP and Entertaining The Troops

When they bombed Coventry, again I was out on nights and the Germans were going over in one succession...

Happy Days at H.T.P. Motors Garage

Some 44 of us, including my “best friend” Marjorie Hoskin, who I hadn't seen for over 25...

STEWARDESS ON THE TRAINS

In civilian life I was a bookeeper, lived in a pub and had served as a stewardess on the trains, so I...

Work and Jobs in London

The smell of breakfast and toast being prepared was also in the air and so on my way from the station to...

Wellington Allotments & Gardens Association letter - January 1944

The letter, dated January 1944, reads as follows.Dear Member, In a message to all Alloment Holders and...

A Secret Weapon in the fall of Hitler

His son, Sir Bernard Docker was not only Chairman of BSA, but also, Chairman of The Birmingham Railway...

Life on the home front

Evelyn went to work in Merrington Lane, Spennymoor where some of the work was engaged in making shells...

Dogsbody

The first project I worked on, in a team of four or five under Dr. Snowdon, was to develop a synthetic...

FORD Merlin factory Manchester

"The British company's contribution to the war effort was remarkable; Dagenham built over 13,000...

I drove 3000 weight trucks!

After being de-mobbed in Birmingham Madge went home, but when she became pregnant Tom's Mum asked her...

War-time Memories of Leicestershire.

Contracts for these were very quickly changed to supplying Government contracts for garments for the...

Some very hot drums!

By this time I had progressed in my musical endeavours to a ten-piece dance band directed by one Hugo...

A Conscientious Objector

I shared the general hatred of the Nazi government, but my sense of dilemma led me in a different direction...

WORK AT R J PATCHETT’S, CLAYTON HEIGHTS

I can remember my Aunt taking me down to the labour Exchange in Bradford and as we were living at Horton...

A Guensey evacuee works as a wages clerk in Halifax

I worked in that office for over two and a half years, and then one girl in the accounts office wanted to...

My War Effort

I was assigned to a bomb filling factory on the borders of West Bromwich and Walsall about 5 miles away...

Memories from the Laundry by Mrs Rosemary Boynton (late Traylere, nee Wright)

As the last bus to D'ton & Bishop Auckland was 9pm, we couldn't go to the pictures and the...

Andrews Boathouses

Andrews Boathouses...

Working at the War Agriculture Committee in St Mary’s Manor

I heard that they wanted people at St Mary's Manor which was the War Agricultural Committee, which was...

'Down The Line'

I decided that I would try for a job in the local factory in Horwich; it was making shells for the...