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Book Synopsis Memories From Pembroke Dock by : Ken MacCallum
Download or read book Memories From Pembroke Dock written by Ken MacCallum and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a wealth of history in the stories told by a wide range of residents from and around Pembroke Dock
Book Synopsis Memories from Pembroke Dock by : Ken MacCallum
Download or read book Memories from Pembroke Dock written by Ken MacCallum and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories from Pembroke Dock is an anthology of memories, reminiscences and experiences of people now living in South Pembrokeshire. Pembroke Dock is celebrating its bicentenary in 2014, and this volume is essential reading for anybody who knows and loves this part of South Wales.The estuary of Milford Haven has long been used by seafarers seeking shelter and as a convenient base for military operations as well as trade. From this evolved boat and ship building, maritime trade and a strong affiliation with the Royal Navy, with the establishment of the Royal Dockyard.These developments, particularly that of the Royal Dockyard, required a large workforce that could not be supplied by the local population alone, so there was a major influx of working men and their families, resulting in the establishment of the new town of Pater Church. It was the start of a process of industrialisation that has ebbed and flowed to the present day. One effect has been a polyglot population and the unique Pembroke Dock accent.
Book Synopsis Memories of the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers WWII by : Sylvester Till
Download or read book Memories of the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers WWII written by Sylvester Till and published by Stamford House Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives an insight into a side of wartime that's not often remembered, but we should be reminded that without the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers the machinery of war would have ground to a halt. This book presents memoirs that remind us that true friendship, spirit and a sense of humour can survive the greatest atrocities of war.
Download or read book Working Memory written by Marlene Kadar and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing these wartime experiences. The contributors follow their subjects’ tracks and deepen our understanding of the experiences from the imprints left behind. These efforts are a part of the making of history, and when the process is as personal as many of our contributors’ research has been, it is also the working of memory. The implication here is that memory is intimate, and that the layering of narrative fragments that recovery involves brings us in touching distance to ourselves. These are not the stories of the brave little woman at home; they are stories of the woman who calculated the main chance and took up with the Nazi soldier, or who eagerly dropped the apron at the door and picked up a paintbrush, or who brazenly bargained for her life and her mother’s with the most feared of tyrants. These are stories of courage and sometimes of compromise— not the courage of bravado and hype and big guns, but rather the courage of hard choices and sacrifices that make sense of the life given, even when that life seems only madness. Working Memory brings scholarly attention to the roles of women in World War II that have been hidden, masked, undervalued, or forgotten.
Book Synopsis We Remember the Blitz by : Frank Shaw
Download or read book We Remember the Blitz written by Frank Shaw and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I went to the public baths and after I undressed I could hear someone whistling. I looked round to see if I could see anybody about, but I couldn't, so I got into the bath and lay back to relax. As soon as I did, of course, I looked up and saw a man putting in the glass windows that had been blown out the night before.' Joan Adams, Lichfield On the night of 7 September 1940, bombs rained down on the defenceless and unprepared population of London for nine long hours. In November, raids spread to the rest of the country - starting in Coventry and taking in everywhere from Portsmouth, Cardiff, Belfast and Hull. During the nine months of the Blitz, thousands of people were killed and injured, and thousands of buildings and homes destroyed. But, with stoicism and humour, life went on. We Remember the Blitz is packed with vivid recollections from this important time in British history. Waking up in a damp shelter to the sound of bombing. Coming out of a cinema to discover that fires made night as bright as day. And, worst of all, the shock of seeing individuals and whole families killed in an instant. We hear from many who were there to pick up the pieces: ARP wardens, firemen - even the bakers, who would return to work under tarpaulin to ensure their neighbours had their daily loaf. Filled with moving but often funny memories, We Remember the Blitz is a celebration of the British spirit, and clearly shows that the battle for Britain was won by 'the many'.
Book Synopsis Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy by : Lieutenant Commander Lawrie Phillips
Download or read book Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy written by Lieutenant Commander Lawrie Phillips and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock produced over 250 warships for the Royal Navy, including five royal yachts, between its founding in 1814 and its closure after the First World War. Prior to this, no ocean-going ships had ever been built on the south shores of Milford Haven, where the most complex piece of machinery used was the horse-drawn plough. Yet within twenty years Pembrokeshire men were building major British warships and they did so for the next hundred years. This long century, from the Napoleonic Wars until after the First World War, covered all the major changes in warship design and construction, from wood to iron and then steel, and from sail to steam, and paddle wheel to screw propulsion. In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated work, naval historian Lawrie Phillips, who was born and bred just outside the dockyard walls, tells the story of this royal yard, its ships and the Pembroke men who built them.
Book Synopsis The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner by : Llewelyn Turner
Download or read book The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner written by Llewelyn Turner and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Tablet of Memory; Or, Recorder of Remarkable Events, Compiled and Alphabetically Arranged from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by : William D. Reider
Download or read book The New Tablet of Memory; Or, Recorder of Remarkable Events, Compiled and Alphabetically Arranged from the Earliest Period to the Present Time written by William D. Reider and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memory's Harkback Through Half-a-century, 1808 to 1858 by : Frederick Edward Gretton
Download or read book Memory's Harkback Through Half-a-century, 1808 to 1858 written by Frederick Edward Gretton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Town Built to Build Ships by : Phil Carradice
Download or read book A Town Built to Build Ships written by Phil Carradice and published by Accent Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Pembroke Dock is one of triumph and disaster, of hope and terrible failure. Nearly three hundred ships were built in the yards, including some of the most powerful ships in Queen Victoria’s navy – as well as four famous Royal Yachts. Then in 1926, the dockyard was suddenly closed, leaving the town without reason for existence. What followed was a brutal battle for survival. The history of Pembroke Dock is a fascinating social study, taking a community from its raw beginnings to full and accepted standing in the world. It makes compulsive reading for anyone who has an interest in history. Accent Press was founded in Pembroke Dock in 2003. Our first quayside offices overlooked the Gun Tower in the dock which is known as one of Palmerston’s Follies.
Book Synopsis A Time to Remember by : Judy Prescott
Download or read book A Time to Remember written by Judy Prescott and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melinda, a naive fifteen-year-old girl, was working part-time at a local fish and chip shop when Peter first entered her life. Each Saturday night, after the pubs had shut their doors, he would arrive at the shop, noticeably inebriated and dishevelled. From the moment he saw Melinda, Peter was certain he wanted to be a part of her life forever. It took several years and persistent effort from Peter to finally convince Melinda to go on a date with him. Remarkably, just three weeks after their first date, Peter proposed to her. What followed is a tale of unexpected love and life-changing decisions, marking the beginning of a unique and enduring story.
Book Synopsis Birth to Reunion by : John 'Ducksy' Reardon
Download or read book Birth to Reunion written by John 'Ducksy' Reardon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pieces of Mind were a popular group, from Newport, South Wales in the 1960s. This book looks at my early life; how I started playing guitars in groups, in the early 60s and went on to form the Pieces of Mind, in 1963, with a childhood friend. 50 years later, in 2013, I organised a reunion of most of the group members who played in the different versions of the group. The trials and tribulations I faced, in the months leading up to the gig, were outweighed by the extreme pleasure I got in seeing all my old friends playing on stage to numerous other old friends in the packed audience.
Download or read book Pembroke Dock Reflections written by and published by Paterchurch Publications. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sisters in Arms by : Jeremy A. Crang
Download or read book Sisters in Arms written by Jeremy A. Crang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War some 600,000 women were absorbed into the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and the Women's Royal Naval Service. These women performed important military functions for the armed forces, both at home and overseas, and the jobs they undertook ranged from cooking, typing and telephony to stripping down torpedoes, overhauling aircraft engines, and operating the fire control instruments in anti-aircraft gun batteries. In this wide-ranging study, which draws on a multitude of sources and combines organisational history with the personal experiences of servicewomen, Jeremy Crang traces the wartime history of the WAAF, ATS and WRNS and the integration of women into the British armed forces. Servicewomen came to play such an integral wartime role that the military authorities established permanent regular post-war women's services and, in so doing, opened up for the first time a military career for women.
Book Synopsis Annual Report - Imperial Cancer Research Fund by : Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Great Britain)
Download or read book Annual Report - Imperial Cancer Research Fund written by Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sunderland Flying-boat Queen by : John Evans
Download or read book The Sunderland Flying-boat Queen written by John Evans and published by Paterchurch Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pembrokeshire written by Thomas Lloyd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide to the southwest corner of Wales by three local experts encompasses a wide sweep of history, from the rugged prehistoric remains that stud the distinctive windswept landscape overlooking the Atlantic to distinguished recent buildings that respond imaginatively to their natural setting. The comprehensive gazetteer encompasses the great cathedral of St David's and its Bishop's Palace, the numerous churches, and the magnificent Norman castles that reflect the turbulent medieval past. It gives attention also to the lesser-known delights of Welsh chapels--both simple rural and sophisticated Victorian examples--in all their wayward variety and provides detailed accounts of a rewarding range of towns, including the county town, Haverfordwest, the attractively unspoilt Regency resort of Tenby, and Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock, with their important naval history. An introduction with valuable specialist contributions sets the buildings in context.
