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In 1940 I remember being evacuated from Deptford Broadway with my sister Rene, who was approximate 6 months old and my brother Freddie who was approximately 18 months olf. I was nearly four. We were all pur on a coach with a lot of other children and taken by Mrs Harvey of the WVS to Prthmadog in North Wales.

It was a long journey and at the end of it we all spent time in a large house, split into dormatories, I do not know how long we were there but I eas eventually billeted out to a familty called Williams. They were a husband, who was the baker for the area, his wife and her mother.

I was well treated and went to the local school and spoke Welsh fluently. Unfortunately I have forgotten most of it now (if you dont use it you lose it).

My brother and sister went to live in what seemed to us a mansion called broney garth. I learnt later that it belonged to Dame Edith Evans who had given for use as a childrens home for the duration.

Sadly our mother was killed during a V2 raid at the end of the war so she was not there when we came home.

There is a lot more to tell but perhaps that will be for another time.

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