Working Through War

8/8 A WEEK AT THE WOOLEN MILL

Edie worked at Waddells woollen mill in Head Nook near Carlisle. Edie's job was on the warp wheel...

My time in the forces

I lived in Wilford Village in Nottingham... From then I was in the services and was stationed in London for...

From 17 to 21 - overnight!

We heard the war had broken out and immediately went down to Corporation Street in Birmingham to sign up. A...

Making Bombs in Nottingham

I made lots of bits of bombs....

My Life As A Tracer

When I was 16 living in Cheltenham working as a trainee tracer in Gloucester Aircraft Company Brockworth....

Prisoners of War German and Italian based at Bela Camp, Milnthorpe

My work was checking the time and work sheets of the prisoners -, for various information regarding feeding...

Working On The Cambridge Railway

I worked down at the Cambridge railway cleaning the engines....

Wartime memories of Keighley

I was in the Royal Engineers in Burma and Malaya and I finished up in Singapore... In Keighley, from what I...

Teenage Work and Fun

I regularly went missing from work to go dancing in Covent Garden where the Forces hung out....

Working at the Munitions Factory

In addition to the hazards of working at Aycliffe there were also many side effects. My sister, Mrs D....

Incendiaries at Overtown Farm, Cranham

One night the farm situated on the high ground to the east of Cranham, called Overtown, was attacked with...

S C and T

I worked at the Stevenage Post Office and I was called S C and T I was the only Female in the...

Auxilliary Messenger

Boy Scout age 13 — 17 served as messenger in W. Churchill's wartime underground Army. Understand...

Lotti Minstrall

Lotti Minstrall...

Ported to Southampton

Opel cars and trucks were ported to Southampton. The cadet though never a popular seller due to it's...

A Bomb on Bliss's

When the war started I was working at Bliss's factory making naval shells. When we came out it was a...

Factory Life

Mother said "who do you think you are?!" and told me to work at a stocking factory, 2/6 per week....

Linthorpe Road

From the Twenties and the Thiries until World War II began nearly everyone went window shopping... We would...

Some More Of My Wartime Recollections. By William Cope.

Some three weeks after I arrived in Newport I was summoned to see the Commanding Officer. He said he had...

Machine gunned on the footplate

When I left school I was apprenticed to a motor car paint sprayer in the Devizes Road, getting about 5 bob...

GPO Telephonist

Although she worked in many London exchanges it was at the Seven Kings exchange in Ilford where she relayed...

Working in munitions in Wrexham

I got married in 1944 in Wrexham Parish Church. When I was 21, I worked in the munitions factory, in...

Bread for Aberdeen

I was working in AB Hutchisons Bakery. We made bread for the army stationed in Aberdeen....

Hats off for the war effort

In 1941 I was a 14 year old working in a milliners,thinking it was fun trying on the hats,when my father on...

A WAAF remembers

I saw the docks on fire and then when I was 18 I joined the WAAF and trained in Bedford. I'd met...

Fun times working in Chilwell during the war

I worked at A Vehicles building 174 in Chilwell....