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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

    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

    Title: 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

    Type: Image

    Description: 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

  • Under attack:: Thomas Williams (front row, third from left) in front of the anti aircraft guns at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Rotherwas

    Under attack:: Thomas Williams (front row, third from left) in front of the anti aircraft guns at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Rotherwas

    Title: Under attack:: Thomas Williams (front row, third from left) in front of the anti aircraft guns at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Rotherwas

    Type: Image

    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

  • 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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 …

  • Withington Home Guard 1940 log book 020.jpg

    Withington Home Guard 1940 log book 020.jpg

    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

    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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