Lancashire 1939 - 1945 Working for Victory

This volume is the third and last in a series chronicling Lancashire at War. The other stand alone two volumes chart the Secret War - those working in hush-hush occupations such as munitions, aircraft development and the construction of Mulberry harbours and Civilians at War - which tells of bomb shelters, food shortages and the arrival of the Americans in 1941.

Here the author, completes the story with a record of the work done in factories across the county. These include the Hampden, Halifax and Lancaster aircraft makers at Samlesbury, Chadderton, Woodford and Squires Gate, Blackpool; the shipbuilders at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead; and the men and women working in old cotton mills making black-out curtains, uniforms, cotton field dressings, utility clothing, haversacks, stretcher supports, parachute harnesses, cartridge cases, gas masks, tents and cotton webbing for the crew seats of Lancaster bombers. Men and women all working together to help the war effort and when not working, volunteering in their free time for the Red Cross, the Territorial Army and the Home Guard or as ARP Wardens or Fire fighters.

Using first-hand accounts Ron Freethy recalls those wartime days when Lancastrians rolled up their sleeves and got stuck in. A time of pulling together to beat the enemy. 

A5 (softcover) 176 pages

Author: Ron Freethy

ISBN 9781846740589