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Title:
ROF Rotherwas muntions workers on tea break
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Black and white photograph of ROF Rotherwas munitions workers on tea break
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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Nome Age Military Experience. Next of Kin 3 ye
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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S N COLLIER, Oswald Gladstone. June 21st 1898 R.Es. Great Wa …
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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6 CARET Oliver Henry May 1890 No Wife COOPER Romas 14 Sept 1 …
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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N S 3 DICCORY Jokn. 39-1-20 None Father— Viggor, Old Hall, S …
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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DAUIES, Abbert Tack. 11 June 1918 None Father Galhard Rd, Ed …
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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B NI. 7 3 4 3 ANOREWS. Percy. 29th July 1904. None Wife. AMo …
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Withington Home Guard log book
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172 BRONAGE. AIfred Herry. 3rd Feby 1891. 23rd Kings hivepoo …
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Title:
Withington Home Guard log book
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S S 3 ETHERIDGE Artheer Joseph 13-3- 1896 1st Herefords. Gre …
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Still at war: Howard Laws, later vicar of Aston Ingham and Lea, was fighting the Japanese in Burma while Victory Europe Day was being celebrated at home
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Still at war: Howard Laws, later vicar of Aston Ingham and Lea, was fighting the Japanese in Burma while Victory Europe Day was being celebrated at home. Hereford’s Don Cornford, too, missed the VE celebrations – he was held prisoner by the Japanese and forced to work on the notorious Burma Railway. He weighed only around 35 kilograms when Captain Redman, a Guards Regiment officer, parachuted into their prison camp. ‘The war is over,’ Redman told Don. (Herefordshire Lore/Peggy Laws)
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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Party time: VE Day coincided with Mary Lewis’ 20th birthday
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Party time: VE Day coincided with Mary Lewis’ 20th birthday. Mary (second right) from Leeds, was on her way to the pictures when she was invited along. Corporal Harold King (third right) from Lower Bullingham was on leave from RAF Pershore and heading across High Town when he was also approached by a local pub landlord: ‘He wanted an airman to complete his party. “There will be a drink in it for you,” he promised.’ The group helped out at a children’s party in Berrington Street. Afterwards the drinks were on the house. ‘We served teas and probably had a couple of ciders,’ said Mary. (Herefordshire Lore/ Mary Lewis)
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Arctic convoy: Ludlow’s Ivan Hall (right) with fellow merchant seaman Rogers in the Brazilian port of Santos
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Arctic convoy: Ludlow’s Ivan Hall (right) with fellow merchant seaman Rogers in the Brazilian port of
Santos. Ivan eventually found himself on board the SS St Clears, ice-bound in sub-zero temperatures at the Russian seaport of Archangel. When the ice cleared he returned to Britain, the St Clears loaded with timber and paper pulp, as part of the fateful convoy PQ13. Five of the convoy’s ships went down when they ran into a minefield. Ivan’s luck held until his ship was attacked and sunk off the North African coast. (Herefordshire Lore/Ivan Hall)
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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Work Fatality: Edith Davies from Railway Terrace, Stretton Sugwas, seen here (top left) with a bunch of birthday flowers in the 1940s. Edith was badly affected by handling high explosives and died not long after the war ended
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Work Fatality: Edith Davies from Railway Terrace, Stretton Sugwas, seen here (top left) with a bunch of birthday flowers in the 1940s. Edith was badly affected by handling high explosives and died not long after the war ended. (Herefordshire Lore/Graham Davies)
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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Under attack:: Thomas Williams (front row, third from left) in front of the anti aircraft guns at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Rotherwas
Description:
Under attack: Thomas Williams (front row, third from left) and his wife Florence worked at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Rotherwas. Although the gun was installed to protect the factory, it failed to counter an attack by a lone German bomber in June 1942. The bombing killed at least 16 factory workers and civilians. They were buried later at St Peter’s Church in Bullinghope. (Herefordshire Lore/H. Pinnell),
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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Title:
Radio DJ: Seen here on Castle Green, Nora Foster was recruited to work at ROF Rotherwas, but soon found herself in the factory’s radio studio
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Radio DJ: Seen here on Castle Green, Nora Foster, the daughter of a Hereford cattle dealer, was recruited to work at ROF Rotherwas, but soon found herself in the factory’s radio studio, playing music for the workers. Nora was one of three radio DJs spinning the discs night and day. In the post war years she was chosen as the face of the woman munition worker on the memorial at Rotherwas. (Herefordshire Lore/Nora Foster)
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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In training: Home Guard unit, Callow, Hereford
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In training: Home Guard units, like this one on camp at the Callow, Hereford, were caricatured as charmingly incompetent by the BBC series Dad’s Army. In reality Home Guardsmen were steeling themselves to mount a final defence against the German invasion which was expected at any time. The men were prepared to fight to the bitter end. (Herefordshire Lore/Bruce Leonard)
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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Poster girl: Topsy Price from Ross-on-Wye featured on a wartime recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army
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Poster girl: Topsy Price from Ross-on-Wye featured on a wartime recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army. Life as a land girl, however, was often demanding and arduous: ‘It was very, very hard work,’ she recalled. (Herefordshire Lore/Topsy Price)
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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Church Street: A street party in Church Street, Hereford outside the Lichfield Vaults
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Church Street: A street party in Church Street, Hereford outside the Lichfield Vaults, the landlord ‘Titch’ Rowberry (in cap and glasses, to the right of the table centerpiece) in attendance. Titch and his wife Ethel contributed to the party and throughout the war sent cigarettes to two customers, taken prisoners of war in Germany, via the Red Cross. Also at the party were Dickie Mailes, Colin Geddes and Nancy Powell from Leicester Place – together with a large photo of Winston Churchill. (Herefordshire Lore/In Our Age)
Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
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Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree
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Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree. Many close relationships developed between local people and the POWs and many Germans and Italians chose to make Herefordshire their home after the war. (Herefordshire Lore/Bobbie Blackwell)
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