A Firewoman in Wartime by Jacqueline Wilde

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 1

They needed civilians to help out in the offices and back up the firemen when they went to fires, they...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 2

We were walking along Great Hampton Street when we heard this enormous rattling sound and the two soldiers...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 3

So I said to central “yes go ahead I'll take your message” they said "we have to inform...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 4

Probably been there for eight or ten hours without a break so these fire engines were coming in from...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 5

We outgrew Cambridge Street and they just kept Cambridge Street, it had a very large garage at the back for...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 6

We slept on bunk beds in a nissen hut which was not very comfortable at all and this was November time and...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 7

First of all he was a fireman and then he went into the army and when the raids were on Birmingham they...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 8

Part 8 During the time I was in Birmingham I had applied to go on an instructor's course they wanted...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 9

Part 9 Another funny story was the fire engines they had in those days some of them were self-propelled...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 10

Part 10 Another funny incident that occurred in Handsworth and on the Soho Road there was a Peacocks and...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 11

When I got married we were only allowed twenty five people at the reception, because food was on ration and...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 12

When I was in the fire service on a Sunday night there was a club in Birmingham for the forces personnel it...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 13

My father was a theatre manager first and when cinemas came in he became a cinema manager and his cinema...

A Firewoman in Wartime - Part 14

From Fleet we used to go on the bus to Aldershot and there we used to go to the cinema, then we...