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A 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 Joanne 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.

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"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.

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"I think the neighbours realised 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 Joanne, 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.

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"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.

"I might just have to accept that I was born just a few decades too late. But until then I will keep on looking."

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Any potential suitor would have to adapt to Joanne's bizarre lifestyle.

Most days Joanne wears an authentic Land Girl's uniform for her chores.

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"I've got bloomers the size of barrage balloons too," she said. "I look like I've stepped off the set of Upstairs Downstairs.

"People tend to be much more civil to me when I'm dressed like this and I honestly think it makes me a better cleaner.”

She has also ditched central heating for real coal fires and converted one of the outbuildings into an outside toilet.

Joanne spends every morning doing her washing using soap flakes and an old dolly tub.

And Fridays are reserved for food shopping in the local market.

"One year I did try to live off the equivalent of rations, but that was a step too far even for me," she said.

"I'd make a sandwich and realise that I'd eaten an entire week's ration of cheese."

Joanna says she has always been attracted to the war period and even as a child felt most at home in museums of social history.

"I remember walking into museums and thinking: 'It feels like I've come home'," she explained.

"I began collecting bits of pieces of memorabilia from quite an early age, but it was only when I moved in here 10 years ago that I guess it became a full-time lifestyle.

"I still have a good social life and enjoy a beer or a glass of whiskey," she told website 'Survivor 79.

She also revealed how she most enjoys listening to George Formby in the evenings.