Working Through War

The Duke of the Riverside Quay

The Duke was, in fact, Fred Fisher, son of Master Builder Robert Fisher of Manchester. Fred was a bass...

Womens Timber Corps

After training, was posted to Grasmere, to an all female operation, where we felled the trees, sawed them...

My Dad’s Claim to Fame

The War Department needed to have an operations manual, so a training film was made with my Dad as the...

A cook in the Air Force

When Rae was called up to do her bit for the war effort she was initially sent to work in a munitions...

The Trials of Food Production

I was a labour supervisor stationed at Depot 4 in Sanderstead, Surrey, allocating gangs to drain ditches to...

Using a siscol cutting machine at the coal face

There were two men to operate a Siscol cutter at the coal face, as we had to cut the layer of stone...

Working during the war and other memories

I liked the youth movement, I met nice girls. My brother was in the Homeguard at Lutterworth, he'd come...

Southampton Guildhall and the war

In 1937 at the age of 18 I was appointed assistant to the Manager of the Southampton Guildhall when it was...

"Wartime Bournemouth"

I then walked up towards the Landsdowne Hotel where the Airforce was billeted... I worked shifts and...

WORKING AT VICKERS.

Lots of the skilled men went to their main factory... Lots of women came to work at the factory where there...

War Time Nursery

Two of the Nursery Staff looked after the children during the night and if the Siren sounded they were...

Work as a Female Electrical Fitter and a War Marriage in Southampton

Work as a Female Electrical Fitter and a War Marriage in Southampton...

Life in the A.T.S with the R.A.O.C

I was postd to Chilwell COD attached to R.A.O.C clerical staff in spares accounting... From there I was...

Memories Of the second world war in Burton-on-Trent

When I was 17 years old and working in an office in Burton-On-Trent, I was thrown off my office stool by...

German Cycling regulations in Guernsey

That's right, we were riding back along the Gravees towards where I lived, and we were stopped, by what...

Making Underwear in Nottingham for the Forces

I wanted to join the Land Army, but my boss wouldn't let me as we were making underwear to be worn by...

Bob Newton's first job

I left school aged 14 in April 1942 and started my first job with a family run business "Reliance Radio...

VOICES FROM THE PAST

The girls of class 7 at Tenbury Primary School knitted balaclava helmets, gloves, seaboot stockings and...

Emergency Blood Transfusion Service

The Home Guard, Wellington Wellington Allotments & Gardens Association Letter — January 1944...

"All genuine tickets please"

He said that because I remember at night time, coming out of the gates when it was dark, chaps would be...

Working during the war

We did ammunition boxes too... When the boxes were done there was a pulley we'd put the finished boxes...

Life during the war - hard work.

One night at 9.30pm, on Wednesday, 8 of us went out to see a film “Mrs Millriver”. My boyfriend...

From child nurse to engineer

Working in Woking at Inkerman Barracks — as a nurse for the officer's children. Most girls were...

Wartime Leisure

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

military vechile

A couple of things I recall whilst there-it became evident that when hostilities finally ceased a lot of...

Air raid shelter discovers good singers!

I started working in an armoury mill when I was 14, then went to Montaque Burton, were I made uniforms for...