- Contributed byÌý
- medwaylibraries
- People in story:Ìý
- Dorothy Morgan (nee Paris.)
- Location of story:Ìý
- Elephant and Castle; Exeter, Devon.
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A7463432
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 02 December 2005
Miss Wilson and pupils from the Elephant and Castle School collecting pots and pans to be melted down for the war effort - c. 1940
At the age of thirteen, I was evacuated along with other girls from the Borough Polytechnic at the Elephant and Castle. After saying our goodbyes, we left our homes and boarded a train, (together with our gas masks and a bag of food each,) without knowing where we were going. We eventually arrived in Devon late that same night, and were gathered together in a hall called the Buller Hall in St Thomas, Exeter Devon. We were soon found homes — mine was in Powderham Road. At school I was quite happy, and I joined the Girl Guides.
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