Working Through War

I worked in the hat museum in Stockport!!

I was 14 when the war broke out and had just left school to work in Sutton and Torkington hat works... We...

Wartime Leisure Time

We'd also go to the occasional dances at the Arrowe Park ball Room, I worked in Bootle with a lot of...

Apprentice Joiner

I served an apprenticeship to joinery at F Pulman and Sons, Hopwood Lane Halifax after leaving school at...

Worked for the CIA

My extra danger was Half a Crown There is a memorial in Newton Aycliffe which has 2 women on it 1 with...

Bevin Boy in Leadgate

He was a watchmaker by trade, but was employed to control the conveyor belts which transported the coal...

Devonport Dockyard Lady Worker

I was 17 when I started work at Devonport Dockyard....

Worked for the CIA

My uniform was a red bret and a red armband. My extra danger was Half a Crown There is a memorial in...

Big Rewards

My Uncle Ernie served in the D.L.I. He was in charge of some German P.O.W.s who were carrying out some road...

Training Accounts Clerks for Wartime Duty

During the war I worked in the civil service at the Royal Ordinance Factory, called Pearson Brothers, on...

Derby Bus Station in the War

This is a tribute to the bus drivers and conductors of Derby, who worked during World War Two at the bus...

Mrs Edith Rigby's story

My sister, Violet, joined the ATS and the choice of going in a Munitions Factory or going on the trams...

Little did the Germans know

All the factories in Kidderminster were on munitions. When the war ended I went on to work in the carpet...

Working in The War on Munitions

We were known as Bevin's girls after the Minister of Labour who led the recruitment of women in those...

Making Engines

I did not go into the forces, and worked as an engineer all my life for LMS. My wife and I lived...

BUSINESS LUNCH

Cheap meals were provided, although having a rather bland menu that included ‘Woolton Pie’...

Working as a centre lathe turner

I trained as a centre lathe turner, and made things in metalware a lot of the time....

Assistant Section Officer Shelia Lockett (nee Wear) BEM - Queen Anne's Bicycle?

Assistant Section Officer Shelia Lockett BEM - Queen Anne's Bicycle. During the war years I was very...

Free, coupon-free handkerchiefs!

Instead, he came home one day from his duties with the Water Board with an armful of these blueprints, and...

Bombing of the Munitions Factory in Newark, Nottinghamshire

Bombing of the Munitions Factory in Newark, Nottinghamshire...

Civilians Worked Harder than Servicemen.

Civilians Worked Harder than Servicemen. As a civilian you worked during the day at your day job and then...

Inspecting Jacks

The first factory made Jacks for working the bomb doors of the Halifax Bomber... In another factory I...

A Cranham boy's Gloucestershire war memories

Back home in Cranham we had a gun site at Brotheridge Farm which fired at German Aircraft going over on...

Dancing at Wordsley

I also had a dance troop which I carried on during the war. I used to take my girls all over our...

Being an officer steward in the WRNS

I said I was an Officer Steward not a nanny, so I re-trained at Burfield in Reading as a cook....

Betty Brewster takes cod to Newcastle

Betty Brewster takes cod to Newcastle...

War time work

People don't know but smokescreens lay along the Trent to stop the River Trent shining in the moonlight...