... 30 SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL RAILWAY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ...

... 16 SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL Leading the way when it came to Working to be the Women on their knees making barrage balloons at a Manchester factory MANCHESTER and the industrial North West in general played a vital part in Britain’s war effort When war ...

... 20 SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL The devils up there But the show went on with Ivor at the Palace Theatre GERMAN raiders actually did Anne Hall and her sister Brenda a favour when they made a sortie over Manchester in 1940 The sisters who lived in Ayres Road ...

... SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL facing up to the enemy in the air masters of the sky Workers in the factories and on the airfields did their bit for victory the Allied cause And he set out to break their spirit He sent the German Luftwaffe on bombing raids over ...

... used to call wagon fat It was terrible The rationing was much fairer in the Second World War” Ann married her husband Alfred who is now dead in 1933 and when the second world war started they were living in Higher Blackley She kept busy on voluntary work ...

... Could more lives have been saved? WHEN blazed at the height of the blitz in the second world war the Underground was THE safe haven for citizens fleeing the Luftwaffe’s incendiaries Thousands slept nightly the platforms of tube stations Kings Cross among ...

... 34 SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL ’: ' ' This Home Guard company on inspection at Heaton Park was made up of railway employees Danger duty for Couple dived for cover and HOW THE HOME GUARD HAD TO DEFEND THREE-TIMES married Beatrice Margaret Hackett met her ...

... By David Manson THE smartest move Portugal ever made was failing to turn up for the second world war This left her monuments intact and her wondrous ironwork safe from military meltdown Both are celebrated in Lisbon now the target of a growing number ...

... SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL 27 Prisoners of had to be tough to Reunited at last Joy of home after the jungles of Thailand Sydney Crooks and his wife Clara SYDNEY CROOKS had to be tough to survive three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Thailand ...

... - i Man who Never Was is named ONE of the most enduring mysteries of the Second World War was solved today as the name of the so-called “Man Who Never Was” was revealed The secret came to light thanks to 16 years’ painstaking work by amateur historian ...

... 4 SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL The evacuation the greatest exodus in Manchester’s history Escaping to safety in the countryside WHAT TAKE THESE are what evacuees should have when reporting for transfer to the safe areas : SCHOOL CHILDREN Gas mask underclothing ...

... SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL IS The land girls of the ’forties enjoyed tackling men's jobs in wartime' Changing roles for women as they stand in for the men New life but spirits AT SEVENTEEN Joan Connell gave up her job as a typist with wholesale warehouse ...