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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

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

Type: Image

Description: 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
In training: Home Guard unit, Callow, Hereford

Title: In training: Home Guard unit, Callow, Hereford

Type: Image

Description: 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
Poster girl: Topsy Price from Ross-on-Wye featured on a wartime recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army

Title: Poster girl: Topsy Price from Ross-on-Wye featured on a wartime recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army

Type: Image

Description: 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
Going bananas: Bananas were on every table at this Berrington Street party in Hereford

Title: Church Street: A street party in Church Street, Hereford outside the Lichfield Vaults

Type: Image

Description: 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
Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree

Title: Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree

Type: Image

Description: 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) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree

Title: Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree

Type: Image

Description: 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) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
Flying Spitfires: Marjorie Rosser was conscripted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1942

Title: Flying Spitfires: Marjorie Rosser was conscripted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1942

Type: Image

Description: Flying Spitfires: Marjorie Rosser was conscripted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1942. As a flight engineer  at RAF Rednal, she prepared – and sometimes flew in – the training officers’ two-seater Spitfires. One morning she was alarmed to find a stowaway German POW hiding in a plane. Later, sharing a cup of cocoa with him, she had to concede: ‘He was the most gorgeous young man I ever saw in my life.’ (Herefordshire Lore/Marjorie Rosser) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
Harris's Real Wiltshire Bacon stand

Title: Harris's Real Wiltshire Bacon stand

Type: Image

Date Published: [1900-1914]

Description: A black and white photograph of two men in a four wheeled carriage in front of a stand at an agricultural show advertising "Gurney's Special Show of Harris's Real Wiltshire Bacon". The Harris family developed a special technique for curing bacon and ham called the 'Wiltshire cure" (Source: The Independent). Behind them is a small group of onlookers and two pigs' heads hung on the stand.
Empty shells: May Morgan (second from right) and colleagues work on empty shells

Title: Empty shells: May Morgan (second from right) and colleagues work on empty shells

Type: Image

Description: Empty shells: May Morgan (second from right) and colleagues work on empty shells. The photo may have been taken at one of the ‘satellite’ shell stores away from ROF Rotherwas such as the one at Ewyas Harold. The main Hereford site was well known to the Germans, having been meticulously photographed by a Luftwaffe spy plane in 1940. (Peggy Putnam) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
Dig for Victory: Naomi Edwards and her brother help dig up the vegetable patch at the back of the family home, 30 Cotterell Street, Hereford for an Anderson air raid shelter

Title: Dig for Victory: Naomi Edwards and her brother help dig up the vegetable patch at the back of the family home, 30 Cotterell Street, Hereford for an Anderson air raid shelter

Type: Image

Description: Dig for Victory: Naomi Edwards and her brother help dig up the vegetable patch at the back of the family home, 30 Cotterell Street, Hereford for an Anderson air raid shelter. (Herefordshire Lore/Dave Edwards) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
Going bananas: Bananas were on every table at this Berrington Street party

Title: Going bananas: Bananas were on every table at this Berrington Street party

Type: Image

Description: Going bananas: Bananas were on every table at this Berrington Street party. Londoner Joy Davey recalled ‘we didn’t see bananas at all [during the war]. Mother would buy parsnips and cook them and mash them and put banana essence in and make a banana sandwich! Well, it tasted like bananas to me!’ Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
Car outside Bishop's Palace gates, Hereford

Title: Car outside Bishop's Palace gates, Hereford

Type: Image

Date Published: [1904-1914]

Description: A black and white photograph of a car with luggage lashed to the roof outside the Bishop's Palace gates, Hereford. There are a lady and gentleman seated in the back, and a lady and the chauffeur in front.
Female conscription: Women’s Land Army workers cleaning up for the dairy on a Herefordshire farm

Title: Female conscription: Women’s Land Army workers cleaning up for the dairy on a Herefordshire farm

Type: Image

Description: Female conscription: Women’s Land Army workers cleaning up for the dairy on a Herefordshire farm. (Herefordshire Lore/Bobbie Blackwell) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk
VE Day party, Foley Street, Hereford, May 1945

Title: VE Day party, Foley Street, Hereford, May 1945

Type: Image

Date Published: May 1945

Description: Black and white photograph of the VE Day party, Foley Street, Hereford, May 1945
End view of Salmet's monoplane

Title: End view of Salmet's monoplane

Type: Image

Date Published: 20th July 1912- 22nd July 1912

Description: A black and white photograph of Henri Salmet's Bleriot monoplane viewed form the tail end. See also G36-062-05.
Withington Home Guard 1940 log book 010.jpg

Title: Withington Home Guard log book

Type: Manuscript

Excerpt:

B FARMER. William Gran 191h June 1883. Volunteers Cambridge …
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Title: Withington Home Guard log book

Type: Manuscript

Excerpt:

B B B PRICE Alfred 281h Sept 1892 R.F.A. Great Wac. Wife. PR …
Withington Home Guard 1940 log book 018.jpg

Title: Withington Home Guard log book

Type: Manuscript

Excerpt:

by Sidney NEWMAN 4h. July 1888 17 Wiltshires – Great Was Wif …
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Title: Withington Home Guard log book

Type: Manuscript

Excerpt:

B N CROVES Arthur Edward 4th Jaruary 1895 22 Glosters Great …
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Title: Withington Home Guard log book

Type: Manuscript

Excerpt:

B B B MORGAN Wilfred James. 6th July 188 None. Brother. A.T. …

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Date of Burial Plot Number

George Lacey

Date of Burial: 18th August 1910

Plot Number: 4025

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Joseph Morgan

Date of Burial: 6th September 1910

Plot Number: 1

Consecrated: Consecrated
Peter Ferry

Date of Burial: 13th September 1910

Plot Number: 4100

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Mary Cockcroft

Date of Burial: 1st October 1910

Plot Number: 4055

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Edith Detheridge

Date of Burial: 20th October 1910

Plot Number: 4101

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Emma Day

Date of Burial: 8th November 1910

Plot Number: 4099

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Francis Smith

Date of Burial: 21st November 1910

Plot Number: 4103

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Elizabeth Wood

Date of Burial: 14th December 1910

Plot Number: 4104

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
William Bridges

Date of Burial: 4th January 1911

Plot Number: 328

Consecrated: Consecrated
James Bridgewater

Date of Burial: 13th January 1911

Plot Number: 151

Consecrated: Consecrated
Henry Turner

Date of Burial: 1st February 1911

Plot Number: 327

Consecrated: Consecrated
Amy Evans

Date of Burial: 6th February 1911

Plot Number: 326

Consecrated: Consecrated
George Jones

Date of Burial: 9th February 1911

Plot Number: 4098

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Mary Powell

Date of Burial: 10th February 1911

Plot Number: 2

Consecrated: Consecrated
William Taylor

Date of Burial: 13th February 1911

Plot Number: 51

Consecrated: Consecrated
John Carter

Date of Burial: 14th February 1911

Plot Number: 152

Consecrated: Consecrated
Daniel Daw

Date of Burial: 28th February 1911

Plot Number: 4097

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Lucy Howells

Date of Burial: 16th March 1911

Plot Number: 4105

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Thomas Groom

Date of Burial: 22nd March 1911

Plot Number: 4054

Consecrated: Unconsecrated
Ada Smith

Date of Burial: 30th March 1911

Plot Number: 101

Consecrated: Consecrated