Working Through War

Women Filled the Gaps

As there was no transport over the river at that time of morning, I usually stayed overnight with my sister...

Memories from the WAAF

After 6 months I was sent to an airfield in Norfolk on coastal command, where every night we heard hundreds...

Part time fire woman

At the start of the war I was working at Ames Crosta Mills, Dawson Street, Heywood, which was a sewage...

TOOL GRINDER TO RAF GERMANY

These selected 6 of us for special assignment to Lockheed at Narborough Road Leicester. I was fortunate...

Railway Work during World War 2

I joined the railway in 1934 as a junior engine cleaner but was used as a 'knocker up' getting...

I Spent the Bus Takings on my Wedding Hat

When war started the family was living in Conningion Avenue,Blackley, Manchester 9, for a weekly rent of 15...

Building Spitfires in Worcester

I was born in 1913 and in 1938; I was working for an engineering firm in Castle Bromwich making ‘...

Food points and rations

Our office at Chilwell was the outcome of the government evacuating all the major food stores at that time,...

BBC Women Engineer - TA(F)

Student war work

In 1942-3 I was a student at the London School of Economics which was evacuated to Cambridge. Somehow some...

A B. Girl Enters B Shop.

Home was at Nether Heage and I would catch the train at Ambergate station and walk from Derby station to...

Memories of the BSA

I later moved to the BSA and started work in their Lancaster Motor Co factory in Montgomery Street, Small...

Inverclyde Shipping

They stretched down the length of Greenock and Port Glasgow and we had Scotts, Cartsdyke, Hamiltons,...

Remembering Wrexham during the war

It had circled Wrexham, on fire, and it came down behind Cefn Park Hall, on the Cefn Road in Wrexham... You...

The Ruler

But George had a gentler side too, he played the cello in the North Staffs Orchestra - hoping to go...

I was machining all my working life

I earned good money with Climax — as much as five pounds a week when I went to Sentinel, my wage went...

Royal Ordnance Factory No.11, Newport, Wales.

Royal Ordnance Factory No.11, Newport, Wales. She then worked as a domestic in a nurses home’ in...

My fathers contribution to counter-intelligence during WW2

The only known important radio interception my father had with counter-intelligence was from a German spy...

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park...

Though not sporty, I became a trainer!

After school Dot was a nursemaid for a year, then went to work at Woolworths when it opened in Barnard...

A Girl Join Up

In 1941 at the age of 22 years, she signed at the Labour and National Service Department to become a...

A Conscript Bevin Boy

I was sent to live with Mr and Mrs Davies, and to work in a pit in the next village called Glyncorrwg....

I became a trainer as they needed to release the men!

After school Dot was a nursemaid for a year, then went to work at Woolworths when it opened in Barnard...

Drawing Office Blues - a disappointment

There were about 12 men and they worked a short distance from the aerodrome in ‘The Research...

Wartime Guide and Ranger Movement

I was on James Foreman Ward for 3 years, there was a number of crashed RAF men, also German, Polish and...

Tents and Bullets

I went to the Labour Exchange, with two other girls, to request this, but instead we were all sent to the...