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After this period, maybe six months later notices came round the schools that parents who wished could have their children formally evacuated or if possible send them to relatives in the country. Many children, particularly from Middlesbrough, gad already been shipped to Canada and America. The girls that I knew who had done this didn’t return until the summer holiday in 1945 when the war with Japan was over.
It was decided that I would go to live, as it happens for about eight months, with my mother’s sister, her husband, father-in-law and her child Arnold – who was of course my cousin. Mum took me, stayed a week and then I was left the mercies of having no parents around. I was often sad and tearful but my aunt was unaware of it. She wasn’t used to little girls and seemed to be critical of everything I did.

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