Working Through War

Daniels' shadow factory in Coventry

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Ministry of Agriculture.

It is an extract from a book he wrote in 2004 called 'St Dennis and Goss Moor', published by...

No Choice

Off I went to London, actually to Southall, Middlesex, to stay with Arthur and Mary Henderson distant...

A.T.S - Royal Artillery

During the years 1942 and 1946/47 I served my country as a member of the A.T.S. In the Royal Artillery and...

welding shoes

I used to work in thick smoke and wear a heavy welding mask a welders hour was 55mins you were allowed 5...

Inverclyde Shipping

Although I was employed by Kincaids I worked in every shipyard from the top of Port Glasgow right down the...

Joan Stable's story

The night Coventry was bombed we saw all this flak in the sky. We hired a hall for the reception and went...

My War Time Job

One dark night, last run back from Hunsdon with an empty bus I asked if I could drive the double decker......

My story

The work I did was working on the Fairy Swordfish at first we had to cover the frame with very strong...

The WRNS

After training in London I was stationed at Chatham Barracks. But unfortunately my mum took ill, and I was...

A Colliery Deputy's Story

I then applied to study to become a shot firer, which meant I had to attend night school one night in my...

A New Job

I had been working at Morris Commercial Cars in Adderley Road when I was seventeen years old but changes in...

The blitz on Coventry

When war broke out,I had been helping out on a farm near my home, but I felt I ought to do some...

Memories of working in munitions in Birmingham

so Miss Mitchell said to me ‘Will you go and see who it is Catherine, because I'm a bit mutt and...

Everyday Life

This I believe was largely thanks to Keighley's location within a hollow, which along with the factory...

I was a Bevin Boy in The Lady Victoria Colliery

To my shock I was to be a "Bevin Boy ".Aneurin Bevin needed 1 in 10 conscripts to work in the coal...

En route to D-Day through Cranham

Shortly before D-Day I was woken, as were my family and most of the village, by a company of Canadian...

Lathes were my destiny

I wonder if the college still has those lathes....

Dilutee Tradesmen

During the 1939-45 war, as indentured tradesmen were taken into the armed services, some were replaced by...

A woman engineer making parts for tanks

Lathes were my destiny

I wonder if the college still has those lathes....

Chieften Tanks

As my father was a very intelligent man, and a good worker, he was transferred to the ‘AW’...

The Home Front Story in Shropshire

Story title: The Home Front Project in Shropshire. If it was a cookery demo, I would have to take an oil...

Too Young to Enter the Forces - My Early War Years

My Dad was down at the sewerage farm in oilskins, practicing for a possible gas attack!.. I took a couple...

A Musician's Tale

I played in lots of bands because I played the piano and saxophone. I was stationed all over, in Wales and...

Small Enough to Fit into a Gun Turret

My job at Lucas’, because I was so small, was to crawl around the inside frames of gun turrets...