大象传媒

When war was declared in 1939, I lived in Dovercourt,Harwich,Essex.
I was evacuated on my 10th birthday 2rd June 1940,with my school.
Hill school primary&seconday modern,mainroad,DOvercourt,Essex.
We left early in the morning by train no idea where we was going,
haversacks&gasmasks on our back I think
one change of clothes and a bag of barley sugar sweets and not forgetting
one label around ournecks with our names on,I cannot remember the train
journey or if we had any food given us
on the way.
IT was getting dark when arrived in
the town of THornbury Gloucestshire,we
had travelled right across England east
to west missing London by going up round Cambridge,we were taken to a hall
to be split up in to groups some people
wanted girls some boys that is when I
was separated from my sister Shirleyshe
was only 5yrs old.
Shirley went to a place some miles
from me,she stayed at policemans family
in the village of Fairfield near THornbury and was very well looked after for the time she was there.
As for me I was lucky as Iwent to a
village called Purton near Sharpness docks it was on the banks of the river
Severn with the Gloucester canal running through the village.
Also evacuated in the village with me was my two cousins Ted&Reg Ling(twins)Vic versey and two brothers Malcom&Norman Jenkins,we went to SHarpness then Berkeley schools ,there was the attitude atschool"them and us"
I must say not from the local children
but from their teachers,we evacuees had
some of our own teachers to look after us,those teackers should have had their own war medal there was notenough
praise given to them looking after children taken from their homes those teachers became,Mothers,Fathers,welfare officier,all for the same wage.
The best thing for me Iwent to a good family,MRs Topsy Driver,husband Frank,son Brian I think two yrs younger than me and Gramp davies aunty TOPSY father.

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