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I was evacuated with my older brother at the start of the war from Walthamstow( Blackhorse Road School)to St Just-in Penwith which is almost at Lands End.
We were first put with the local butcher, the Stevens in Bank Square. then later moved to a relative of theirs at a farm just out of town, Boscean.
We were with the Eddy's Ethel and Matt. he was a typical farmer type. hard working and I believe hard drinking, though at the time I did not know of such things being only 6 years old.
" Auntie" Ethel was a lovely lady, quite small and loved to cuddle me.
I can say with all honesty that the years we were there were the happiest of my life, I am now 70!
We were taken back to London just before the Doodlebugs started, my brother was then working, so I was evacuated again but this time to what is now "Beckham" town Alderley Edge in Cheshire, I hated every minute of it.
The first man I was sent to was a farmer who loved to hit me any chance he had, My Mother came to visit and I was moved to a large house with about 6 other evacuees. it was better but I still hated it.
Mum sent me a birthday present of a compass. except she sent me drawing compasses, but I did get the right thing later-- I needed it to show me which way was south to London. I was picked up twice by police on Crewe Station and returned to billet. I came home 2 weeks before war end.
I went back to St Just for a holiday at the time that the Jap war finished.
Is there anyone out there who was evacuated from E17 to St Just?

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