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Marion Martel (née Mollet) interviewed by Becky Kendall of Radio Guernsey at the Guernsey Museum March 2005, transcribed and edited from CD by John David Nov 17th 2005

I………. Now, Mrs Martel, you were here during the war, could you have gone and been evacuated with the children from your school?
Yes, my mother was offered to take five children with her, and she’d be a helper, and in the end we had to go back because there wasn’t a boat, so my parents decided that we’d all stay together, my father and sister, elder sister, were going to stay here, and my mum and I were going away, so in the end they decided we’d all stay, so that’s what we did
I………. How old were you at that stage?
I was ten, eh? Eleven? I was ten, because I did the eleven-plus.
I………. Did school continue?
Well it was closed down, the Germans took St Andrew’s School, and we went to what is the Appletrees nursing home now, and that was taken over, and we went to an old farmhouse in the Huriaulx, by the Dairy. All ages, all mixed from five to fourteen, sort of thing, and I took the eleven-plus, and after that I went to the Intermediate School.

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