Working Through War

The Iron foundry

In 1940 I was evacuated from my home in Leeds to Ings cottages, Crofton, Wakefield. One of my first jobs...

Post War Credits

I was a stoker in the Tottenham and District Gas Compny starting in 1939 when I was 14. Having worked in...

My time as a welder on Lancaster bomber

From the age of eighteen to twenty one I worked as an oxy- eceteylyne welder on Lancaster bombers....

“Washer” Woman

Between 1940 and 1944, I was a lathe operator, making washers, in Vickers Armstrong Submarine Works in...

Working with the gun cotton in the munitions factory

When I went home after working nights, I'd fall asleep, and my children would say ‘Close your...

Apprentice moulder in Falkirk during WW2

I worked as an apprentice moulder on the nameplates for HMS Anson and HMS Howe. When the war finished I was...

Many processes

There were a lot of people working in the factory with me — let me think, there were seven sections...

Working on The G.W.R.

Starting off as a railway porter, and then a fireman on the GWR engines, all through the World War II...

Nora Rose's Story

A little lady used to come and tell us some stories — we used to laugh. I used to use an agency...

Devonport Dockyard Canteen Worker

I was 15 ½ when I started in the canteen in H.M. Dockyard which had just been taken over from dockyard...

Joined ATS at 17

I was stationed at Torquay, Northampton, Sterling; they just kept me on the move from station to station....

Shropshire during the war

Shropshire was mainly agricultural during the wartime so people went round more or less the same. A long...

Women's war work at Vickers-Armstrong

Min from Salisbury Aircraft Electrician. I was conscripted to work in the aircraft factory in Castle Road...

My War experience by Mrs Burton

At the beginning of the war I wanted to work at Aycliffe munitions but instead i was sent to a small...

Collecting collars from the Chinese Laundry

On our days off our first call in Hull was to the Chinese Laundry to take and collect our collars... We...

Barronia Metals

During the war I lived in Stretton Sugwas and I worked at Barronia Metals in Blackfriars Street in...

Machine Gun Fire.

I was a trainee tracer at Fletchers, which was a factory that made sugar machinery but at this time it was...

glasgow areoplastics

We made Hampden bombers and Halifax bombers. We had evacuees from Coventry and prisoners from Walton Prison...

Pigeon Squad

Coded messages were then sent via the pigeons back to him and the message capsule was taken immediately to...

When War Broke Out

There were Chinese, Latvians, Chechs, Polish, Estonians and one German. The German man married a Birmingham...

Working in Munitions.

When the war started I was working in a foundry in Derby making mowers... I didn't really like the idea...

Joan Broad

Lots of girls had a tough life ATS, WAAF - they had to repair airplanes and they had to be prepared to...

My Shipyard experiences

We were away for two years, when I came home; I became a ‘Catcher’ at Doxfords shipyard where I...

Wartime Memories

I remember one day as we were queuing by the clocking machine waiting to clock out for lunch and suddenly a...

Wartime memories of Keighley

During the war I worked at Prince Smith's sharpening bayonets. Going in Prince Smith's, those big...

Ministry of Labour

I went into the Ministry of Labour to do my war work....