A woman who helped build Spitfires during World War Two has unveiled a commemorative plaque at the factory where she used to work. Vera Saxby was working for Auto Metalcraft in Southampton when the ...

Plans to build a life-size memorial of a Spitfire to honour the people who secretly built the iconic plane have been unveiled. During World War Two more than 2,000 Spitfires were built in secrecy in ...

MARJORIE Power was 18 when she spotted an advert in her local newspaper appealing for female workers to take up jobs at the local Spitfire factory. She had been an office worker since leaving school ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The veterans had worked building Spitfire parts during the Second World War or had ...

Phyllis lived in Swansea and was just 18 when she was sent to Birmingham, to work at the Castle Bromwich plant – it was the first time she had left south Wales. She had to meet up with four other ...

War is horrible on everyone, and the big one of close to a century ago certainly broke tons of records in this respect as, unlike everything that came before, children and women were involved as both ...

Storybook storeys: Sir Terry Farrell in his home where model Spitfires on the roof and the Palmer Tyre factory plaque bear witness to its former use Credit: Photo: Martin Pope Tucked out of sight ...

Eighty years ago landmark steps that would lead to Birmingham being forever associated with the iconic Spitfire, hailed as helping to save our necks in the Battle of Britain, were taken. For it was in ...

Former workers at one of Leicester’s secret wartime munitions factories are being sought to join in a special commemorative event on Remembrance Day. The Venue@DMU is De Montfort University’s new ...

A creative factory worker has paid tribute to the heroes of World War Two, by building intricate replicas of two iconic RAF planes - ­ from bits of scrap. Rob Wass, 34, spent 1,500 hours creating a ...

A computer-generated image of how the new memorial might look Plans to build a life-size memorial of a Spitfire to honour the people who secretly built the iconic plane have been unveiled. During ...