Olive lived in Aspatria, and had two evacuees staying with her; Austin and Bobby Marks... They went to the...
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I was at the Manchester High School for all the war years and I was evacuated with the school to Cheshire...
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While I was at Finsbury Road school, St Luke's School was bombed, so we had to share our school with...
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It was Sunday September 3rd 1939, I was 9 yrs old and as usual I had ben sent offf to the 10am...
Then stuck with nowhere to go, they saw some British prisoners of war on the road, so they threw away their...
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During the war I was evacuated from Abbey Wood to Newnham along with my older sister and two of our...
I belonged to a youth club in London in Camberwell, which was run by a young Methodist Minister named...
Rosie arrived, just one small bag of clothes and belongins, crying her eyes out to her mum, dad and two...
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