Working Through War

Working at Derby House

We had a station set up in the local cinema, the Plaza, and the vehicles outside, because they had a car...

Voluntary war work

First I joined the St. Johns ambulance and on passing my exams was transferred to the ARP as an ambulance...

Two weeks of days and two weeks of nights

My first job was with ICI at their factory in Halford Drive, Witton, Birmingham making radiator tubes for...

Working at the Welbeck Telephone Exchange

I was working on Baker Street at the telephone exchange. There were about 60 girls at the telephone...

Land Army Girl with the Forestry Commision

I went to work in the offices of Ruston and Hornsby and met a friend there who was joining the Land Army,...

Dockyard Memories

I worked temporarily in the Co-op in Millbrook and then, after a while, got a job in the laundry at Mount...

WORKING IN THE FOREST

I went to school until I finished at the age of 14, and of course I wasn't old enough to join the...

I Made the Fuel Bottle that went in the Torpedo that Sank the Bismarck

I made the fuel bottle that went into the torpedo that then sank the Bismarck....

A Bevan Boy's Story

The storyteller remembered being taken by his mine supervisor to encourage a group of twenty new Bevan Boys...

Working On The Railways

I am writing on behalf on my Mother, Constance Violet Houghton and would like to pass on some of the...

A young girl's work at Derby Ordnance Depot

I was 19 years of age when War broke out and for four years worked at Derby Ordnance Stores Factory down...

Memories of World War II

They were publishers of many magazines including the Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Hotel Review, Defence, Modern...

Gassed by mistake by our own side.

Before the war, I was a dressmaker at Debenhams and Freebody's, but then made to hand-stitch heated...

Joining up

At 16 i became a messenger for the A.R.P and did one night a week at the civic centre where messages were...

Working for Bagshaws - a Reserved Manufacturer

I worked for a firm called Bagshaws in Dunstable; quite a medium sized engineering firm which made...

9) Theatres

There were three theatres: there was the theatre which was looked after the by Theatre Superintendent...

Schoolboy to Flight Test Engineer

There were Land Army girls on the farms who wore pork-pie hats, green sweaters, breeches and heavy boots....

Oh Happy Days (Part 3)

E.H. Sumptier, Southcombe Garage, Chipping Norton. 1 To use a vehicle after 7 p.m. or before 7 a.m. or on a...

Ethel Morris' Wartime

I lived with my parents and my brother Harry in Bolton and worked at Burtons Clothing Factory at Halliwell....

War work and ARP and Bombing in Derby

Mavis Richards was a Clerk in Derby Health Office, acted as a secretary to a man who was organising Air...

Years working down the coalmine

It was dirty, dangerous work, as there were steel ropes lashing about around us all the time and it was...

Change of jobs

We returned home to Benton Square and my two sisters and I went back to work at the Ritz Cinema in Forest...

Marie Wardle (m. Evans)

She lived with about 1,000 other young women in a purpose-built hostel called Raleigh Hall at Swynnerton,...

Memories of a shorthand typist.

Mary was training as a nurse, Alfred working at the Post Office, Ian as an Austin Tool Room apprentice......

Wartime memories of Keighley

Me Dad went in the Army — he got a job as a storeman in the Territorials, down Lawkholme Lane... In...

Working for the Guernsey Essential Commodities Committee

I don't remember if the Post Office contacted me or if I contacted them, we were not on the phone, but...