In early 1942, as we had overhead lighting, I left my hand lamp on the last tub, so that I knew which...
Having been at my job for about 6 mths it came to pass that we were getting some Bevin Boys who had...
He worked at the Gloster Aircraft Company in Hucclecote as a draughtsman, working on the Hawker Hurricane...
Cyril was among 21,800 balloted to serve our country in this way and they were known as the Bevin Boys....
If I missed him at the club door, Tom always gave it to me at the coalface next time I met him....
I was accepted and each morning for two weeks had to travel to New Cross in south east London to be trained...
After a few months I left there and began an apprenticeship at Accles and Pollock in Oldbury, another...
I have thought many times about writing something of those years as a Bevin Boy at Bedford Colliery, Leigh,...
There was one incident when our leader, a rather wealthy lady, came straight from a party and took her posh...
I also remember on one occasion sitting on my bike at the harbour bridge which was open to shipping at the...
My name is Daphne Sainsbury, I was born in Norwich and my maiden name was Daphne Quantrill. My Sister and I...
In the above photograph the names of the firemen standing in the back row from left to right are Bob Dixon,...
However, the government commandeered parts of the factory in 1939 and we began to manufacture smoke bombs,...
The Naval authorities, aware of the catastrophe that occurred when an ammunition ship blew uo in the...
Born Margaret Malvaney into a musical family she joined the choir at St. Ann's Catholic Church at the...
From 1934 he was an Officer of Customs and Excise in London, working mostly from an office on Fulham...
The full story about Doll and Len and there early life i will leave out and start with my dad he was...
As I had donew three years training in my Grammar School Cadet Force, I had opted for the Army on...
I was working in Birmingham in 1940 and was staying in digs with a friend... So myself and George slept in...
The next job for the WVS was meeting evacuees at Barnsley Exchange Station....
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