Working Through War

Lotti Minstrall

Lotti Minstrall...

"She saw the picture (by chance)"

When I was in Nottingham on embarkation leave I saw this picture in the window of the Notts Evening Post...

Working in a cardboard factory

I WORKED AT A CARDBOARD BOX FACTORY CALLED HARRISON MORRIS AND USED TO COME HOME EVERYDAY COVERED IN GLUE...

Typing and dancing in Dumfries

I was working for Flight Luitenant Hugh Thomas Morgan. On a Wednesday nights there were dances, and I had...

RLY Ambulance Trains

I was working on the railway at Victoria Station, and I was 17 years old. Hospital trains used to come into...

The NAAFI Canteen.

The NAAFI Canteen. I was 19 and worked in the Naafi canteen in Fraserburgh....

Draughtsman

I left school at 14 years old, and went to work at Crossfields Soap Factory. I worked there for 2 years I...

Oiler and Greaser

As an oiler and greaser, it also meant climbing high ladders....

Apprentices

During world war two he was to spend his remaining few years with the GWR factory helping young apprentices...

Nothing to come back to

I answered "I'm a telegraphist". "Do you have any qualifications? Any school...

My war Experiences

I worked on Nava lunifroms but I had to give that work up eventually because the fluff from the material...

The Barges

They used to take potash, phosphate, rock and copper to L/K fertilisers at Saxilby....

Lotti Minstrall

Lotti Minstrall...

Moving Airman

My father-in-law was the Chief Engineer of the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, we went to visit him when the...

Strange Tobacco

He was very resourceful and grew a lot of his own food, as well as his own tobacco... When he got home,...

Railway Drivers

My father Arthur Holland, known to his workmates as 'Pat' Holland, drove freight trains during the...

Lotti Minstrall

Lotti Minstrall...

My Days in ENSA

I trained at Park Hall camp and I passed out as a cinema projectionist in 1940... I met all sorts of stars...

Rats

This made the work shop very quiet, then out on the rafters above came the rats scurrying around. Joan used...

My time in the RAF

I could have stayed in the RAF for another 3 years and earned £300 but my wife didn't want me to....

War Time Memories Around Saxilby

Ingleby Grange between Saxilby and Sturton by Stow was taken over as a hostel where land army girls were...

One Night in 1943

However, it came to an end eventually and the next morning when my friend came to call for me to go to...

Rivet Hotting

Along with many other women and young girls Vera worked ‘Inside’ during the second world war...

Child Labour

In December 1941, at the age of 14, I went to work in a factory which made heavy diesel engines, etc which...

Arriving in Shrewsbury

Along with many other school children, I was evacuated from Liverpool to Shrewsbury in 1939. The above...

How I met my my husband

I did my training in the ATS in Halifax, Yorkshire and when that finished after a month in 1942 I was...