Jenny came from Murton in County Durham from a mining family. When she left school, she went to work for a doctor in Sunderland (in service) as a maid. When war was breaking out, the doctor evacuated to Bamburgh, bringing Jenny and her sister, Ellen, with them as maids.
George helped his father deliver milk around Bamburgh from Greenhill Farm on a horse and cart. George met Jenny at the start of the war whilst delivering milk.
Jenny joined the WAAF’s as a driver when she was 21. She was stationed (or billeted) at Milfield, near Wooler.
After a hard day’s work on the farm, George would cycle to Milfield to see Jenny and return home again. She was eventually posted to London to work as a driver in the WAAF’s, billeted in St. John’s Wood. She drove ambulances, wagons, sometimes travelling all over England with deliveries. She also drove cars with Senior Officers in. Just before the Normandy landings, she was driving soldiers to the coast every day, not knowing what was about to happen.
When war ended, she was in Trafalgar Square celebrating with the crowds. She then returned home to Murton, where George came to visit her and they decided to get married.
They were married on 27th October 1945 and moved to Armstrong Cottages in Bamburgh.
Five the Wynding ~ Bamburgh, Northumberland 