Munitions factory Reading WW2

[otterlady]

Hi there was a munitions factory at Henley on Thames,Oxfordshire which is about 8 - 9 miles from Reading, people would be transported there from
various places. My mother worked there. It was built on the berkshire side of the Wargrave to Henley road and was surrounded by trees, so knowbody knew it was there.

Sheila

[IMBER]

Hi there was a munitions factory at Henley on Thames,Oxfordshire which is about 8 - 9 miles from Reading, people would be transported there from
various places. My mother worked there. It was built on the berkshire side of the Wargrave to Henley road and was surrounded by trees, so knowbody knew it was there.

Sheila

Are you meaning the underground aircraft components factory at Warren Row?

[HarryW]

Hi there was a munitions factory at Henley on Thames,Oxfordshire which is about 8 - 9 miles from Reading, people would be transported there from
various places. My mother worked there. It was built on the berkshire side of the Wargrave to Henley road and was surrounded by trees, so knowbody knew it was there.

Sheila

Are you meaning the underground aircraft components factory at Warren Row?

There was also one on the Wargrave - Henley Road about a mile from Henley - built into the side of the hill and invisible from the road.   In the 70s it was (I think) called Sir George Godfrey and Partners.

Harry

[otterlady]

Hi that's the one I was talking about Henley, the building are still there and I believe it is now a underground archive secure storage unit. My mother told me about it and I used to deliver newspapers in my younger day near there.
Sheila

[dolly1918]

My granny worked at a munitions factory in Reading, she says there were tents or something, and dormitories.  Her name was Doris (aka Doll) - from Pimlico - would anyone out there know of her or maybe which factory she was talking about? She's 93 this year and I'd love to hear her stories :-)

Thanks!
V

[esdel]

Could be anywhere.
Anyone manufacturing tins - cases for ammo
Any engineering co - taken over for "war effort"
MIGHT have been VERY informal - did you know they had us gathering ACORNS (at 10 shillings a hundredweight!). Used for Munitions (explosives) manufacture!!

[esdel]

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[dolly1918]

Thanks for the reply - funny about those acorns!
I'll ask granny if she did the same, it might help to jog her memory as it's really going 

Cheers,
V

[esdel]

Yes and they took away our railings and fences round our houses "to make tanks". (all lies!)
Granny is sure to remember that. Was she in the ATS or WRAC? or a WREN?
And a loaf of bread was 8d - that is 2 p
And you got 1 oz of butter per person on your "ration book" (tear out the "coopongs!")  And all clothes (etc etc) were "Utility" (= poor quality)
And every time you went to the shops the answer was the same "Don't you know there's a war on!"
And NO ICE CREAM
And sweets rationed for 5 years AFTER we "won" the war!
And in 1946 Lyons ices (cylindrical ones) two and a half pence (=1 p) and Walls (the pork butcher, ugh!) were 3d and new-fangeled "choc ices" 4d
and ten shilling notes and £1 had colours but £5 was plain black and white: none bigger than that! And Lyons Tea Houses everywhere (Lyons Corner House at the Strand)
And Lyons, yes that same co, the VERY FIRST to use computer anywhere!
And Britain ACTUALLY MANUFACTURED things!!!