Stories categorised in 'Working Through War'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
We have just learned that Bone is 30 minutes flying time from the Axis base at Cagliary on the tip of...
The sausages manufactured at 'Dick Hills' butcher shop and other butcher shops, due to shortages -...
Although my back was almost broken I jumped out of the ambulance and after a quick glance at broken windows...
We had very few cases of Enemy Activity in Leamington in comparison with places like Coventry and...
But the war came closer to the Horsham firemen's home ground when a bomb landed on the house of the...
My father and mother had moved to Brighton in the June, when the Royal Engineers Records Office had moved...
We went to the three cinemas in town to see every film we could, 'White Christmas', 'For Me and...
One unexploded bomb landed in Christionedd and the Army - with hundreds of villagers watching —...
Introduction This article has been submitted on behalf of Mrs Annie Ferguson from Whitehaven, Cumbria who...
Like the time when we had incendiary bombs in the front and back gardens, I upended a heavy pot with a...
Jack and his sister Chana travelled with a group of children that left by train in March 1939. Jack's...
The army lorry stopped beside the bus leaving me nowhere to go except between the army lorry and a lamp...
Fire watch groups were formed by local businesses to maintain watch for incendiary bombs on the roofs of...
I worked at Aylesford paper mill and we used to cycle to work. By then there were only the three of us;...
They used the Langsett, Ewden, Bradfield and Derwent Reservoirs for practice runs and Guy Gibson who led...
Between us and these two factories, there was an army anti aircraft battery, which was in constant use at...
My father regularly acquired bundles of softwood off cuts from a factory situated on Slough trading estate...
My photographs of the bombing of a certain West Sussex town, however, made the deadline in a remarkable...
All of Trudi's relatives were killed by the Germans. Mary's mother took the children and Trudi down...
A few weeks later he contacted me to say that he was raising funds for war effort, and asked if I would...
R A F both on leave had done the same thing, we were asked to dance by them, and met up afterwards...
Stints at the Odeon On leaving Bobby's I played six nights a week for the dancing in the Odeon...
I caught the bus from the Punch Bowl at Atherton to Leigh and then another bus from Union Street to Risley....
After a couple of weeks I was transferred to the hangar, Foxwarren 45, situated at Redhill Road, Byfleet,...
When the 2nd World War broke out in 1939, I was seventeen and working at Ticklers jam factory in Grimsby....
My mother, Robertina Pearson travelled to Coventry during the war years to work in a munitions factory...
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