Working Through War

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...

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...

Miss W -ID number JCFA1565

After 1940 I worked at Deans in Beverley... Deans also made parts for Bailey bridges....

The day war broke out

My father was licencee of the Cromwell Hotel, Middlesbrough... This Sunday was special: my father had...

The Munitions factory

My mother, Eilleen Williamson, came over from Northern Ireland. She went down to London and worked in a...

My Wartime Job

I worked in a soup factory in Netherfield Road, and afterwards in a munitions factory... Spratt's...

Helping the War Effort!

We worked near Piccadilly and used to put our names and addresses on the parachutes. I used to break my...

Lotti Minstrall

Lotti Minstrall...

Florence Brown's First Job

I worked in a factory in Hucknall making uniforms for the air force....

ROF

She worked in munitions at Risley on the suicide squad... I am currently doing some research,and would be...

The factory

I left Leeds to work in Gateshead. It was my choice to go to Gateshead and I worked in a supergrade factory...

Working for our country

Later she joined the naafi in shrewsbury, where she met and married my dad, Raymond Phillips. I will always...

My first day at work

I was working in the offices of Humber Ltd on the Humber Road where my father worked... I worked as the...

Hanworth Airfield Accident

My son Douglas was named after a cousin called Douglas who was killed on Hanworth Airfield when a bomb...

Bomb on Chilwell

Just as the troops were getting off the bus from Nottingham a bomb was dropped on ‘Depot...

Good times spent with my husband on leave

My husband was in Germany he'd come home periodically for leave, he was in Shropshire before he went...

Driving the train to Swynnerton

I was an engine driver and one of my jobs was to take the women to the armaments factory in Swynnerton....

THE WAR'S FIRST "CASUALTY"

On 3rd September 1939 I was two years old and living with my parents in Austin Avenue off Hartburn Lane....

THE WAR'S FIRST "CASUALTY"

On the day war broke out I was two years old and living with my parents in Austin Avenue off Hartburn Lane....

Hard times

Mrs G Lacy lived at Eastwood when the war started. Bombers used to come over trying to destroy a munitions...

Chiverton Arms, Blackwater

At Chiverton Arms we had a lot of the army camped in our field, and other fields locally. There was a...

Home guard

Worked at Aycliffe as a driver, was allowed to drive the new bus which was twice the size of the old ones....

Making Detonators

During the War I made detonators at Risley on shifts... It would have been perceived as an unusual job for...

ww2

We used to have to put ‘black outs’ up — you couldn't even have a chink of light...

Delivering the post in war-time Basingstoke

I used to get up at 2.30, cycle 15 miles to Basingstoke and sort and then deliver the post....

Working at Players

I was working might and day at Players, Players made all the cigarettes for the soldiers at the front. I...