We delved into the archives to find these images of your grandparents and great grandparents keeping calm and carrying on with daily life despite the ever-present threat of German bombs.
9. May Day Queen
Wisewood Senior School May Day 1941 where Joan Wrigley, Queen Bluebell and her Maids of Honour including Iris Bee, Patricia Fields, Dorothy Parker, Betty Spencer, Muriel Pearce, Jean Walton and Freda Leggett were pictured in the garden of Wisewood School. Photo: Submitted
10. Getting their Vitamin D
Miners on conveyor belts passing rows of sunray lamps at Manvers Main Colliery solarium in May 1942 Photo: Stuart Hastings
11. Home Guard
Home Guard members masquerading as paratroopers on exercise in Rotherham, April 1941 Photo: ©Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
12. Hard at work
Engraving machines 1940, at Edward Pryor, Egerton Street Photo: Stuart Hastings