Working Through War

Yarrows

During this time Yarrows built 15 destroyers, 8 sloops and 4 gunboats. On March 13th 1941, the worst night...

Working for the Chief Inspection of Armaments

I worked in CIA- Chief Inspection of Armaments... It was with the Chief Inspector of Armaments....

Memories of a Bedworth wartime ambulance driver

Brody-Good's daughter Elise and Cath the daughter of the manager of Bedworth gas-works, amongst the...

My War Years with British Rail

The only motor van delivered to places like Burton and outer Derby. At the depot we had Italian prisoners...

Memories of Hercules: Home guard Part 2

Soon after moving to Hercules, I joined their home Guard unit which was D Company, part of the 25th...

A Bevin Boy in North Derbyshire

I was then called up as a “Bevin Boy", and was sent for training at Creswell Colliery. After...

Nora Foster's Story

I decided to do my “Bit” and went to the Royal Ordinance Factory in Rotherwas, in Hereford...

What's the french for 'Dung Flinging'?

I used to help my sister but I could use the exercise to practice French verbs and conversation......

Munitions Park

I was about 18 when I went to work in the Rolls-Royce munitions factory in Hillington in Glasgow. Because...

A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND THE MUNITIONS FACTORY

She came to marry her somewhat older German fiancee who was Jewish and had escaped to England from the...

Bletchley Park

So, at the age of 22, I was sent to Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, in 1943 as a...

"Of women, welding and war"

I was sent to Heighnton near Darlington and when I arrived an older lady saw me and befriended me because...

Winifred Evans' War

I went with my friend Agnes Hart, we had become close friends during our time in the factory and she was a...

Bottle Batteries for Radios

And the amount of meat paste bottles, we used to battery, with sal ammoniac, when I was there. and we used...

Life of a land girl

I learned to drive in a five ton comer X army truck; we had to take a civilian police test and a...

Dashing Daisy

My late, great Auntie, Daisy Moyle, was a bit of a character and was well known locally as someone who...

Put One Up The Spout Fred

Their head quarters was in the works canteen which was apart from the main works, one night when they were...

Underground war work

When I was 18 I was called up to work in the underground factory for the Bristol Aeroplane Company in...

Employment opportunites in the War

Eventually, I was told by the people in charge of these things, that I had to either go to work in the...

Munitions and Engineering

They said I could go to Coventry but then they changed it to Hereford... When I got to Hereford, I was met...

Barred by the Army's strange 'moving wood'

I either rode my bicycle into Gloucester or we had an excellent bus service between Painswick and...

My experience in Long Eaton, Nottingham

In Long Eaton shop Grays I remember the battery van pulled up delivering a supply of batteries , a bus...

Working at Box Factory in Grangetown

When I was 16 I went to work at the Box Factory at Grangetown in Sunderland... Disclaimer: Story submitted...

Working in the BBC Monitoring Service 1941 to 45

I had to catch the BBC bus and started tying the daily digests and the Report of broadcasts all over the...

On Becoming a Fitter

Birmingham had begun to be bombed more often, and one of those nights I was on night shift and went to the...

From Trainee Pharmacist to Pistons

In order to maximise aircraft production, we at BAC were warned when the enemy aircraft were within a...