A BRITISH woman living in a 1939 timewarp is desperately seeking a wartime husband.

    Joanne Frances has frozen her life around the time of the outbreak of World War II.

    She has no washing machine, no computer, no television and no car.

    Instead Frances travels around on an 80-year-old pedal bike and washes in a tin bath.

    And occasionally she even likes to spend the night in an air raid shelter erected in her garden.

    Her end terrace home in the picturesque village of Burton-upon-Stather in North Lincolnshire even has blackout curtains and bomb blast tape on the windows.

    “Every morning I come downstairs and empty my chamber pot in the loo outside. People think it’s a hardship but it’s not — you get used to it,” she said.

    “I think the neighbors realized I was serious when I ripped out the kitchen and bathroom as soon as I moved in.

    “The units were just too modern. Besides, I wouldn’t have had a bathroom in 1939 and I definitely wouldn’t have had a Jacuzzi bath.”

    Her only concession to modern life is a mobile phone for her part-time job as a cleaner — but even that has the ringer set to an air raid warning siren.

    But Frances, 41, admits there is one thing missing from her life — a man.

    “I would like to meet someone,” she said. “I’ve had few boyfriends, but I know I’m a bit of a novelty and once that novelty wears off, well, most people find me quite hard to live with.

    “But I haven’t entirely given up hope — I mean, I still like to think that I am a pretty good catch.

    “I would have their tea on their table when they came home from work, I’d do their washing and ironing. In fact, I’d take care of everything. The only problem is that most people who want that kind of housewife are either in their 90s or dead.”

    Any potential suitor would have to adapt to Frances’ bizarre lifestyle.

    Most days Frances wears an authentic Land Girl’s uniform for her chores.

    Frances says she has always been attracted to the war period and even as a child felt most at home in museums of social history.(SD-Agencies)