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Extract from edited transcript of Mrs Ethel Wolley (n茅e Blatchford) interviewed by 大象传媒 Radio Guernsey 5/2/05.
Transcribed by John David

, and then of course you had the choice of whether you went or whether you stayed, some sent the wives away, and the husbands stayed,
I鈥︹�︹��. Your parents thought it would be right for you to go, initially to London鈥�
Well they were hoping to go to Bristol themselves, you see, and the arrangements were that we would all meet up in Bristol, but I was in Bridley Road Market, in north London, I was buying some curtain material, and I heard two of the traders saying 鈥淰ery bad news, this morning, the Channel islands have been occupied鈥�
I鈥︹�︹��. how did you feel when you heard that?
I nearly went through the floor. It was if you had struck me with lightning. So anyway, I didn鈥檛 bother buying the curtain material, I just packed it all in and went home, and Aunt Edie said 鈥渢hey may have got away鈥� I suppose every day for a week we used to sit on Waterloo Station, waiting for the trains to come in, thinking they might be on the train, and then we realised, that was it.
I鈥︹�︹��. Did you hear from them at any point?
Not for about a year,
I鈥︹�︹��. So there you were at about eighteen, not knowing how your parents were鈥�
And then of course we had the Red Cross messages. So I stayed in London,

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