West Indian Labour Force in Britain: A group of British Honduran Forestry workers, finished work for the day on the pine clad hills of East Lothian, Scotland, are seen talking to the manager Mr John Dunbar.
The forestry workers, left to right: Aldrick Garbutt, A Thomas, W Ellis, A Smith, E Arane and B Augustine, and manager John Dunbar.
By Elinor Florence: My mother-in-law Gerda Drews was a teenager living in Berlin during World War Two. She witnessed the ferocious battle of Berlin, and her family’s tragic experiences after her city fell to the Soviet Army.
Note from Elinor: My husband was born in Berlin after the war and emigrated to Canada as a young man. His father Kurt Drews flew with the Luftwaffe, and his mother Gerda Kernchen lived through the bombing of Berlin and its occupation by Russia in 1945. Gerda was eleven years old when the war began. She is still living in Berlin. I interviewed her on tape. She doesn’t speak English, so the recording was translated by my husband.
Glossop Grammar School. From left to right - Mr Jones (maths), "Sammy" Holt (maths), Cecil Lord (headmaster), Leonard Hall (physics) and Mr Brown (maths).
As written by Patricia Lawson
Steve Parsons has contacted us with details of his mothers war time experiences. Including her American Air Gunners Story & Factory work stories.
My mum Lily King was aged 16 towards the end of the war and like everyone would go to local dances were many Airman from the local USAAF base would attend, in fact there was often a truck that would go round pre arranged pick up places and take the girls to the dance at the local airbase and bring them back after. My mum met a young American Air gunner at one dance and started dating him.
Mr. Arthur Bedford, a building contractor at Southbourn, Bournemouth, Hampshire. The glider-home will have three rooms – a bedroom measuring 10 ft by 7 ft, a living room 15 ft by 7 ft, and a kitchenette 8 ft by 7 ft. If the experiment is successful, the builder will convert more gliders. People baffled by the housing shortage will be able to have these homes built quite cheaply on their own sites. Photo shows men working on the exterior of the glider-home – 11th June 1947.
West Indian Labour Force in Britain: A group of British Honduran Forestry workers, finished work for the day on the pine clad hills of East Lothian, Scotland, are seen talking to the manager Mr John Dunbar.
The forestry workers, left to right: Aldrick Garbutt, A Thomas, W Ellis, A Smith, E Arane and B Augustine, and manager John Dunbar.
By Elinor Florence: My mother-in-law Gerda Drews was a teenager living in Berlin during World War Two. She witnessed the ferocious battle of Berlin, and her family’s tragic experiences after her city fell to the Soviet Army.
Note from Elinor: My husband was born in Berlin after the war and emigrated to Canada as a young man. His father Kurt Drews flew with the Luftwaffe, and his mother Gerda Kernchen lived through the bombing of Berlin and its occupation by Russia in 1945. Gerda was eleven years old when the war began. She is still living in Berlin. I interviewed her on tape. She doesn’t speak English, so the recording was translated by my husband.
Glossop Grammar School. From left to right - Mr Jones (maths), "Sammy" Holt (maths), Cecil Lord (headmaster), Leonard Hall (physics) and Mr Brown (maths).
As written by Patricia Lawson
Steve Parsons has contacted us with details of his mothers war time experiences. Including her American Air Gunners Story & Factory work stories.
My mum Lily King was aged 16 towards the end of the war and like everyone would go to local dances were many Airman from the local USAAF base would attend, in fact there was often a truck that would go round pre arranged pick up places and take the girls to the dance at the local airbase and bring them back after. My mum met a young American Air gunner at one dance and started dating him.
Mr. Arthur Bedford, a building contractor at Southbourn, Bournemouth, Hampshire. The glider-home will have three rooms – a bedroom measuring 10 ft by 7 ft, a living room 15 ft by 7 ft, and a kitchenette 8 ft by 7 ft. If the experiment is successful, the builder will convert more gliders. People baffled by the housing shortage will be able to have these homes built quite cheaply on their own sites. Photo shows men working on the exterior of the glider-home – 11th June 1947.
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