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I believe it was late summer in 1939 when the very first batch of evacuees arrived in St Austell railway station. It was a really big train load. When the children came off the train they were standing in the station yard. I had been roped in as a volunteer driver to take children to various places in St Austell. All the children wore identity labels and carried gas masks. Suddenly an air plane appeared from further down the line. We casually watched it, then one boy shouted 鈥� Miss Miss it鈥檚 an 鈥榚inkel!鈥� We were frantic as it came nearer. It flew over the railway station and continued up the line to the east, then we heard 2 dull thumps. 2 bombs had been dropped in Alexandra Road. It destroyed 2 houses. Luckily nobody was killed. The poor evacuee children had come all the way from London straight into the thick of it in Cornwall.

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